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A stage celebration of the homegrown Memphis dance style known as "jookin'" begins a national tour here next year. Conceived and choreographed in part by its star, renowned local dancer Lil Buck, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jookin is a dance style ...

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 ...

Alumni of their respective hometown street-dance scenes, Memphis’s Lil Buck and Miami’s Jon Boogz saw things they recognized in each other when they met in LA: a certain theatricality, a drive to tell ...

This piece originally aired on May. 13, 2014. When you think about traditional street performers, you might not imagine them dancing with the legendary New York City Ballet. But one dancer who has ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — Within one month, dancer Charles “Lil Buck” Riley completed a stint on Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” tour, came to New York for a highly praised “Jazz at Lincoln Center” program ...

It’s been nearly 24 years since Project Pat’s debut album Ghetty Green, but Black Gen Z TikTokers are making sure his legacy lives on. Project Pat hails from Memphis, Tennessee, and he rose to ...

"For people who don't know the style, Memphis Jookin consists of a lot of slides and glides and toe spins and a bounce that's very native to the city. What makes Jookin so original is how we get from ...