Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time. By Gia Kourlas Here, the dancer Lil Buck, or Charles Riley, performs his now-classic ...

Jookin, born out of the Memphis rap music scene in the ’90s, is often referred to as "urban ballet". The dance, performed in sneakers as opposed to pointe shoes, is all about footwork: graceful slides ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis is known for its ...

Red Bull Dance Your Style is back, and the top street dancers on the planet are coming together once again to tear up the floor, wow crowds and go head-to-head in the hugely hyped all-styles battle ...

One of Memphis' more distinctive cultural expressions has a new national showcase. Innovated in the 1980s and '90s, when it was variously known as "choppin'," "buckin'" and, especially, "gangsta ...

The surfboard. The buck jump. The Pac-Man. Such maneuvers are part of what Los Angeles choreographer/director Amy “Catfox” Campion calls the “movement vocabulary” of Memphis jookin’, a ...

In November, 2011, a group of American creative giants—Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma, and others—traveled to Beijing for a high-culture take on ping-pong diplomacy. The U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and ...

Editor’s Note: Step into the shoes of dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance with KQED’s If Cities Could Dance. Watch a new episode from ...