Turf dancing, a Bay Area style with roots in 1990s Oakland, is enjoying a resurgence and gaining international attention for its creative techniques expressing cultural and personal attitudes. And on ...

TURF dancing was born from the rhythm of Oakland and developed in conversation with the world. An acronym for Taking Up Room on the Floor, TURF is a prominent dance style from the San Francisco Bay ...

On a cold and rainy October day, four men gathered on two corners of 90th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. What they did next captured the attention of more than a million YouTube ...

Char� Johnson performs under the shadow of death. Every time the 17-year-old hip-hop dancer goes on stage with his group, the Architeckz, he looks inside himself and focuses on the anger and pain of ...

*In the Bay Area, well Oakland specifically, there’s a new thing called ‘TURF‘ dancing, and the Oakland Museum of California/OMCA spotlighting it as part of its Black History Month Dance Battle event.

A recent Friday, 1:37 p.m.: Calling themselves the Turf Feinz, the four members of the Turf dance crew dart through a BART train headed for San Francisco. They need to find the next audience to wow ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Ten Bay Area dancers have helped make history, performing in Kendrick Lamar's record-breaking Super Bowl half-time show on Sunday and bringing the Bay Area's own turf-dancing style, ...

Arthur Gardner, a.k.a. Dopey Fresh, spends many mornings trying to rouse BART commuters out of an iPhone-induced stupor. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!” he calls out to the crowd on board the ...

If there are two dance forms that seem to be total opposites of one another, it's turf and ballet dancing. Turf dancing is an art form that was created by black youth in Oakland, and is characterized ...

Emerging from the streets in the early 2000s, turfing has become synonymous with Oakland. Short for 'taking up room on the floor,' the dance form unites dancers across The Town, with older dancers ...

Last year’s Art & Soul came with lofty ambitions. Specifically, the organizers wanted to mark the event’s ten-year anniversary by featuring an all-Oakland lineup. It took a lot of work, said Samee ...