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Sway, step and slide. Dive into the world of dance with these stories.

Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre in Cuba
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Every wednesday night a vacant grocery store parking lot in North Hollywood is transformed into a space for krumping, a highly expressive form of street dance born out of South Los Angeles.
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From 1983 to 1985, Radiotron provided a safe space for breakdancing, popping, graffiti art, MCing and DJing, becoming known as the first West Coast Hip Hop youth center.
Producer Don Cornelius accepts the 'Discretionary Award - Pop Culture' on stage the 2005 TV Land Awards at Barker Hangar on March 13, 2005 in Santa Monica, California. | Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Don Cornelius was a steward of black pride who knew more than most of us that song and dance wasn't just entertainment, it was a revolution. That the revolution happened in L.A. made it all the better for me.
Pina Wenders
Wim Wenders uses 3-D cinematography in groundbreaking ways to render the exquisite artistry of German choreographer Pina Bausch in his new film, "Pina," opening January 13, 2012.
Ballerinas seem delicate and fragile, but they are extraordinary athletes. Here is one of Giselle's most challenging passages.
By the end of the 1960s, African-Americans had abandoned the search for a racial Promise Land and had come to terms with the near impossible task of overcoming the physical, philosophical and economical barriers created by centuries of racism.
Dance marathons became the thing to do is Los Angeles during the 1920s and nowhere was this more popular and visible than in Venice.
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When is a dance just a dance? The answer is way beyond black and white
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Tap is for everything that ails me--almost everything
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