Rhymes, who graduated from Uniondale High School, was joined by Long Island hip-hop luminaries LL Cool J and Chuck D.

Around 2000, when she was 20, she started her own all-female dance crew called Bgirlology. She remembers watching the slow growth of hip-hop in Phoenix. “It just started snowballing,” she said.

Dancers used their passion for dance as a way to motivate students and to give back to the community through donated school ...

The performance bridges hip-hop with modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz and even gospel. “We all are one, so we have to make all of these genres one,” said the Philly-born and based Albright.

Founded in 2014, the Isodynamic Hip Hop Dance Crew (IHHDC) specializes in dance styles such as freestyling, breakdancing and choreography. “[The goal of IHHDC is] to create a strong, united, diverse ...

As hip-hop turns 50 on Friday, one of its pillars, breakdancing, was on display last weekend in Phoenix at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship. The event featured 3,000 dancers from at least 37 ...

BSR Queen Dance Crew, a Brockton-based dance team, combined three dance companies to compete for the Hip Hop International title, which Rateau said is like the “hip-hop Olympics” for dance.

Black N’ Blue Hip Hop Crew will host their dance showcase on April 20 with a handful of special guests. The team is student-run at the University of Arizona and participates frequently in school ...

The Floor Lords are Boston’s most celebrated break dance crew. Founded in 1981, they have evolved from “street dancers” to “pillars of the Boston community” for their work empowering ...

The World Hip-Hop Dance Championship concluded on Saturday, and six crews walked away with the gold and the cheers of the over 5,000 attendees at the sold-out Mullett Arena in Tempe. For a week ...

Popular shows such as "America's Best Dance Crew," "America's Got Talent," and "So You Think You Can Dance?" have helped popularize hip-hop dancing, Maple said. But before other colleges can latch on ...