This tutorial focuses on dance footwork that helps improve timing, balance, and coordination. Practice the movements to ...

The street dance style elevates Chicago's South and West Sides communities. Chicago footwork serves as the backbone of street dance battles, but it's more than just rapid moves—it’s a way to express ...

Those three words comprise the mantra that the members of the Era Footwork Collective live by. The local group—also known as the Era Footwork Crew—consists of four dancers and two producers who helped ...

As Chicago DJs continue to bring footwork music to clubs and major festivals around the world, it can be easy to forget that footwork—at its heart—is as much a dance culture as it is a sound. 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 ...

Esteemed footwork dance crew, The Era, has put together its first ever stage show and is preparing to debut it in South Chicago on August 27. Along with dancing, IN THE WURKZ incorporates poetry and ...

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 ...

Footwork is a fast-paced style of dance and electronic music that was born on Chicago's West Side in the 1990s. Today, footwork is a global phenomenon and one dance crew is bringing it to a new stage.

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DO BALKAN DANCE long enough, and you not only have the potential to learn hundreds of dances; you also learn to count in many languages — Croatian, Serbian, Romanian and Macedonian, among others.

“It’s getting bigger and bigger — it’s beautiful,” says RP Boo, the producer credited by many as the father of Chicago footwork. From its beginnings in the late Nineties, the genre — marked by ...