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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Collage Dance Collective held an outdoor family festival Saturday afternoon, National Dance Day. Thousands of people braved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stage celebration of the homegrown Memphis dance style known as "jookin'" begins a national tour here next year. Conceived and ...

Leni Wylliams was one of Cleo Parker Robinson’s earliest students. He started dancing with her when he was at Thomas ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick “Memphis Jookin’: The Show,” which presents jookin “in the world it comes from,” is sincere entertainment, packed with talent and heart.

Memphis’ own jookin’ star Lil Buck (Photo: Courtesy Lil Buck) Even if you can’t dance and you can’t jive, you’ll have the time of your life at the 2nd Annual Memphis Dance Festival. Presented by ...

It's a dance style that started in Memphis and has made its way all across the nation, known as Memphis Jookin', and its history is now the focus of a show set to start in a couple of months, kicking ...

*GloRilla and Lil Baby met up backstage for the homecoming concert hosted by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University over the weekend. The two were part of the A-list lineup of ...