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 ...

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 ...

More than 400 participants recently attended the a five-day conference, "Werk Related: Chicago Footwork," created in partnership with the UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance, Five College ...

After a July 19th live taping of Red Bull Radio's daily show Peak Time Live at the stylish eatery The Promontory, on the south side of Chicago—centered around the Windy City's footwork crew Teklife—a ...

Last month I saw Chicago footwork producer DJ Taye perform in the middle of the afternoon in 38-degree weather on a stubby stage set up in the street next to the Empty Bottle. His set was part of the ...

The “first ever” children’s book based around the sound and dance styles of Chicago footwork has been released in the US. Elvin Discovers Chicago Footwork landed in August, created by non-profit dance ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the sudden death of footwork’s most prominent artist – DJ Rashad – last year, the genre had to take stock. A year on older heads and new players are pushing Chicago’s rapid-fire sound to new ...

I am the Queen, a compelling short film about some of the women of Chicago footwork, begins with a radiant poem: "From dance groups to battle cliques, we represent elegance, power / Raise your tiaras ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (AP) — Rashad Harden, a house music and footwork pioneer who performed as DJ Rashad, was found dead this weekend of an ...