Detroit — He was only 2 years old when he first saw his grandpa dance the Boogie Woogie. Ron Ford Jr. was captivated watching his grandfather, Lester Payne, 86, execute the form of swing dance ...

Parris Fleming will never forget the moment when Harry Styles “entered the building.” The building was New York’s Madison Square Garden. It was Aug. 22, 2022. Fleming was the trumpet player in Styles’ ...

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 ...

The journey to open Owensboro’s The Groove Lab, a dance studio specializing in hip hop, funk and commercial choreography, is a bit of a full-circle moment for Steffan Clark and Ellis Birkhead. “I ...

Jazz funk, afrobeats, dancehall and a big burlesque performance are all planned for the Spring Dance Concert presented by ...