Around Kansas City, there are both social dances and group classes that welcome beginners. Kansas City has been swinging since the 1930s and a vibrant dance community keeps the tradition active.

Swing dancing, one of the only authentic American dance forms, was created in the 1920s in Harlem, N.Y. The dance saw a massive revival in the late 1990s with the most unlikely of circumstances: a Gap ...

Walk into the Brighton Dance Studio on a Tuesday or Thursday night, and you’ll hear a cacophony of songs ringing throughout the building and its several separate practice rooms. In the main space, the ...