If anyone possesses the credentials and pedigree to identify a burgeoning dance craze or legitimate phenomenon erupting in the United States, dance connoisseur Jamal Sims certainly does. The ...

Flatfoot buck dancing is a traditional folk dance form, but it's waning. Now, one Tennessee program is trying to pass it on. Learning The Subtle Art Of Buck Dancing Have you heard about buck dancing?

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 ...

“When I’m a-dancing, I’m not just going through a bunch of steps making a bunch of noise,” Thomas Maupin said, describing the folk tradition known as buck dancing. “I’m trying to play the tune they’re ...

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 ...