When Jamal “Litebulb” Oliver started dancing in the Footwork scene, the Chicago-born style had just made its way to YouTube. Now, at least for a night, it’s at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The ...

Footwork lives in Chicago, even when it doesn’t. The movement—bleeding-edge club tunes fragmented from house, high-speed dance battles, and most crucially, the community of people who make it and ...

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Traxman, DJ Rashad, and DJ Spinn. Photos by Erez Avissar. Footwork tracks are customized to incite footwork dancing. So-called “battle tracks” exemplify the genre because they emphasize ...

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In small corners of the globe, dancers are putting the pedal to the floor. In L.A. there's krumping. In Detroit, jit. In the South African town of Soweto, shangaan. All these types of dancing have one ...

WB-boying first swept New York in the 70s, legend held that street gangs used breakdancing as an alternative to fighting. Thirty years on, in another of America's great cities, competitive dancing is ...

There’s a moment in Robert Townsend’s Motown-inspired film The Five Heartbeats in which Sarge, the titular vocal group’s newly appointed (and visibly drunk) choreographer, meets the group for the ...

Since the mid-'90s, a style of dance and a genre of music that share the name footwork have been livening up parties and late-night public access TV in Chicago. Now footwork is reaching beyond its ...

Projected onto the Merchandise Mart, “Footnotes” honors a style that’s become popular around the world but isn’t always given recognition in its hometown. By Brian Seibert Footwork, the Chicago-born ...