UNC Charlotte professor’s new hip-hop conference celebrates cultural impact

Ashley Tate is organizing the symposium at UNC Charlotte this month, bringing together hip-hop scholars, practitioners and ...
The New York Times

Bringing a Diversity of Hip-Hop Dance to the Concert Stage

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The highlight of the street dance festival “Motion/Matter” at the Perelman Performing Arts Center came at the end: an all-styles ...
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 ...
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 ...
NPR

West African dance and hip-hop play a key role in a revamped Juilliard track

Nyoka Wotorson has been dancing as far back as she can remember. But it wasn't until she got accepted into The Juilliard School's small but mighty Dance Division, and training in its revamped program, ...