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 ...

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 ...

Esteemed footwork dance crew, The Era, has put together its first ever stage show and is preparing to debut it in South Chicago on August 27. Along with dancing, IN THE WURKZ incorporates poetry and ...

When Jamal “Litebulb” Oliver started dancing in the Footwork scene, the Chicago-born style had just made its way to YouTube. Now, at least for a night, it’s at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The ...

Amherst dancers took to battle Sunday at the Footwork Frenzy all-styles battle event hosted by the traveling dance crew, Chicago Footworkology. The event was free to attend for all ages and was held ...

This tutorial breaks down the Running Man dance with simple footwork patterns and timing tips. Practice the steps to improve ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Footwork is a fast-paced style of dance and electronic music that emerged from Chicago's West Side in the 1990s. Today, footwork is a global phenomenon. "We changed up the style of ...

In June, 2010, Jerrilynn Patton sent a Facebook message to Mike Paradinas, a British producer who runs the adventurous electronic-dance-music label Planet Mu. She had heard that Paradinas was putting ...

“It’s getting bigger and bigger — it’s beautiful,” says RP Boo, the producer credited by many as the father of Chicago footwork. From its beginnings in the late Nineties, the genre — marked by ...