Join dancer and choreographer Arianna Davis to learn some '90s hip-hop dance moves with class members Lilian Gonzalez and Rehima Jordan. Get ready to break down and drill fun '90s moves like the ...

The U.S. premiere of U.K. hip-hop dance theater company, Boy Blue, brought energy, rhythm and artistry to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater last weekend with Cycles. The show served as an ...

Theatre is not ordinarily associated with hip hop. Neither is hip hop ordinarily associated with Scotland. Yet World’s Evolution by Glasgow-based dance collective Three60 combines all three by ...

While deejaying his sister’s birthday party, DJ Kool Herc tried something unheard of at the time: He extended an instrumental break from James Brown’s “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose” and began rapping ...

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th birthday. It started with a back-to-school party on August 11, 1973, in The Bronx. Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, improvised and played snippets in a loop on ...

As the 50th year of hip-hop comes to a close, the AFRO salutes the pioneers of hip-hop and those who have sustained the genre for 50 years and those who carry it into the future. Started on Aug. 11, ...

Before we had drum machines, DJ Kool Herc unknowingly sparked a revolution while spinning records at a house party in 1973 when he added a second turntable to his DJ rig. How was the significant? In ...

Hip-hop’s 50th birthday is Friday, with concerts and other events scheduled in cities nationwide this weekend and beyond, but more than music, scholars who have studied the genre say, it’s a cultural ...

Hip-Hop today is a global culture that has changed music, dance, fashion, language —and even politics. But where did this worldwide cultural movement begin? We trace hip-hop back to its humble ...