Now this is how you retire: 60-year-old dance teacher Shirley Clements celebrated her last school year with a surprise performance – of Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk,” no less – at the annual ...

As funk music evolved, so did its dance culture. The 1970s saw the rise of social dances that embodied the music’s rhythmic complexity. Moves like the Funky Chicken, The Bump, and The Robot ...

Enter dance funk. Dance funk is a fusion of dance styles. Moves may be incorporated from jazz and hip-hop. The moves are rhythmic and some will be sharp and hard-hitting, contrasted with smooth ...

Gabriela Vallim reflects on the booming interest in baile funk in the UK, and explains the complex social history behind the ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...

Their beats became the mothership of hip-hop and dance music. Their live shows were ... or rump-shaking as P-Funk, with an Afrofuturist philosophy of funk as the cosmic life force, dedicated ...