According to the National Endowment for the Arts, flatfoot dancing and buck dancing are personal responses to, and interpretations of, music. Flatfooting in the U.S., the NEA explained, came from a ...

Just over a year ago, the annual competition honoring Dickson County and the nation’s master flat foot buck dancers, the late Robert Spicer, was planned to continue as it had for years. Organizer and ...

RUTHERFORD COUTNY, Tenn. (WKRN) — He’s internationally known as one of the world’s best Buck dancers and he’s from right here in Middle Tennessee. His name is Thomas Maupin, and his life’s mission is ...

Old-time buck dancing, a traditional Appalachian freestyle solo dance with roots in Africa and the British Isles, is about active engagement with the music. It’s often playfully competitive and has ...

Jon Boogz (in purple) and Lil Buck at Beth Goldman’s Beginning Dance Troop class at Santa Barbara High | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom The gawky, colt-like teenage limbs fall into focused concentration as ...

At the age of 10, most of us are still finding our way as to what our natural God-given talents are. Ten-year old Jacob Fennell has already begun that path – with great results. The youngster, a ...

The late Robert Spicer played a key role in preserving an American art form. Stories of Spicer’s kindness and love for buck-dancing are retold throughout Dickson County, especially when the annual Old ...

The surfboard. The buck jump. The Pac-Man. Such maneuvers are part of what Los Angeles choreographer/director Amy “Catfox” Campion calls the “movement vocabulary” of Memphis jookin’, a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook In “Nobody Knows,” the jookin star presents a short film that explores his struggles as a Black man and his relationship to dance.