Tyrone "The Bone" Proctor was a "Soul Train" dancer who popularized a style known as waacking. (From Debra and Archie Burnett) Tyrone Proctor grew up in Philadelphia dancing with cousins in his aunt’s ...

Pilobolus When it began making dances in the 1970s, Pilobolus was like almost nothing else in the modern dance world. Here was a collection of guys who combined sport and gymnastics skills to create a ...

Hip-hop culture penetrates every aspect of people's lives, from the way they dress and speak to walk and dance. Though mostly associated with music, hip-hop from its inception has always been a ...

Gotta have that funk, yo. Yale art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, in his 1983 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, traces the origins of the word “funk” to the ...

In 2011, Lorena Valenzuela packed her bags and flew from her home of Mexico to Los Angeles to compete in a dance battle. The day before the contest, she attended a class at Evolution Studios in North ...

In the south Bronx in the 1970s, a new kind of dance emerges. In the South Bronx in the 1970s, a new kind of dance began to emerge and anyone could do it. It didn’t require much, maybe a piece of ...