New Orleans’s complicated history with the Mardi Gras flambeaux. By Rien Fertel. (Feb. 23, 2017)

Chelsie Hill always imagined a career as a professional dancer — she just didn't know she would be in a wheelchair once she got there. At 17 years old, Hill was part of her high school dance team and had been dancing competitively for more than a decade. She was three months away from graduation in Pacific Grove, California when she got into a car accident with a group of friends, leaving Hill paralyzed from the belly button down.

In hit movies like 42nd Street, Berkeley liberated dance from the stage and placed it in a purely cinematic dimension with dizzyingly inventive routines

Taken from the new album Arca, out April 7 on XL Recordings. Conceived by Jesse Kanda and Alejandro Ghersi

Chinese Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe

Fik-Shun

Eight performers from the international sensation STOMP took to an outdoor basketball court in New York City’s Greenwich Village with four stars from the world famous Harlem Globetrotters to celebrate the team’s 90th year.

Wolfshäger Hexenbrut tanzt “Schüttle deinen Speck” von Peter Fox

The Jackson Five

Pelbo

Modern experts still don't agree on what caused plagues of compulsive dancing in the streets. By Marissa Fessenden. (June 24, 2016)

Little Scout

He was also a war hero and a ballroom dancer — Bald Eagle’s life is hard to fit in a headline. He parachuted into Normandy, acted in Westerns and starred in his first feature film at the age of 95. By Camila Domonoske.

Jungle

Fever Ray

Lorn 

Minstrelsy. Blackface. Mugging. Out of this twisted past came one of the first successful all-black Broadway musicals. Now an ambitious revival is bringing it back. By John Jeremiah Sullivan.

“The robot” is the world’s most recognizable novelty dance. It’s distinctive popping and locking motions are simple enough concepts in themselves, but the origins of the robot are little less straightforward.