Hip Hop Dancing

Morgan Mickan could have been a dancer.

Since the advent of swing in the Roaring 20s, dancers have headed for someone’s house late at night after the dance to continue the party and, since they had the dancing bug bad, dance to the blues.

Contemporary. Modern. Jazz. Tap. Hip-Hop. These are all types of dance and present the movement of the human form in artistic ways.

Up in Washington Heights, home to a large stretch of Broadway, word of the 13 Tony nominations for neighborhood homage "In the Heights" left the locals beaming - if not dancing in the streets.

Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams like banking millions as the Neptunes, a production duo that lays tracks for the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Madonna. But there's...

THERE is a sneaky suspicion that Malaysian festival-goers have it big time for groove given out by credible hip hop acts and eclectic deejays. Rock gigs and hypermarket-sized raves, the traditional money-spinning cool choices, have some serious competition coming their way.

FRESH off his split from Star Jones, Al Rey nolds is back on the town. He hit club Home late last week with a new buxom lady friend, where he was drink ing and dancing till the wee hours. "He was at the bar with her. She was a pretty big girl," said a cocktail waitress at the club. "They were dancing to hip-hop and bobbing their heads. He had on a white button-down [shirt], open with a diamond ...

It's a sad day when a farm boy from Iowa can say that about a musical genre he once loved. When will the awful dance crazes end?

From funk, to breaking with a little scooby-do and then straight into trucking. The hip-hop dance class is in high demand. Every quarter the two-credit class is offered to all students for two credits.

A local 17-year-old is dancing circles around notions of typical small town culture with hip-hop moves that rival any inner-city talent.