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 ...
The New York Times

At Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Rennie Harris University aims to give educators a working knowledge not only of hip-hop dance technique, but also of its origins and culture. By ...
WAMC

Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective at the Orpheum

Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective, the esteemed street dance company founded by Michele Byrd-McPhee in 2004, presented The Black Dancing Bodies Project: SpeakMyMind at the Orpheum Performing Arts ...
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 ...