You’ve probably seen old video footage from after World War II of couples whirling across the dance floor to old-school R&B tunes, doing dances called Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, or Boppin’. By the 1970’s a ...
"One-two-three, four-five-six -- basic," Veronica Austin calls to the line of beginners stepping shoulder to shoulder in a downstairs strip-mall studio. Wearing looks of serious concentration, they ...
Zakeeyaw Toney didn’t complete her move to Las Vegas from Chicago nearly 20 years ago because her craft kept her going back. Toney witnessed Chicago-style steppin’ for the first time when she visited ...
BRANCHBURG — The Theater at Raritan Valley Community College will present a performance by Step Afrika! at 8 p.m. Friday. Historian Jacqui Malone, author of "Steppin' on the Blues," described stepping ...
Paula Miller has been hearing about steppin’ for years. Last year, the retired social worker made the jump and joined Ron Brown’s class in Antioch. “Now that I’m in this part of my life, recovering ...
The class at It's Your Move makes up the Little Rock arm of Steppers Around the World, an informal regional group of steppers that also has members in Oklahoma and Texas. Little Rock residents Brenda ...