“A flat footer plays the tune that musicians are playing. It’s not about making noise with your feet. It’s about making music with a toe and a heel,” Mr. Maupin told me. He looked me in the eye and ...

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 ...

DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — You really can’t talk about the legacy of buck dancing in Tennessee without mentioning Dickson County legend Robert Spicer — but what is buck dancing, and who exactly ...