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Is hip-hop dancing for everyone? Atlanta’s FyreNation Crew is on a mission to prove it

On a hot spring Saturday in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, dancer Joy “Kuma” Gasaway is popping to “Don’t Stop the Rock,” a classic breakdancing hit from 1985. Kuma and her husband Anthony “Fyrefli” ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The evolution of Atlanta’s hip-hop dance scene

Montsho Eshe grew up in Southwest Atlanta, a child of dance. Her first teacher was her mother, Billie Ann Gaither, who in the 1960s opened the Gaither School of Dance, one of the first Black-owned ...
Chicago Tribune

B-Series hip hop festival opens at a Dance Center fighting for survival

Fifty-one years ago, the Dance Center of Columbia College launched a series of professional performances aimed at fulfilling one of the university’s key goals: to create a conduit between students and ...
Los Angeles Times

Pasadena hip-hop dance teams stumble on the world stage: ‘They’re all coming for blood’

As hip-hop turns 50 on Friday, one of its pillars, breakdancing, was on display last weekend in Phoenix at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship. The event featured 3,000 dancers from at least 37 ...
The Reporter

Chapkis Dance makes waves in the Hip Hop world

It’s no surprise that Greg Chapkis decided to open a dance studio. His mother owns Dance Unlimited in Vallejo, his father ran a dance studio in Ukraine and his sister was a prima ballerina before ...