A recent Friday, 1:37 p.m.: Calling themselves the Turf Feinz, the four members of the Turf dance crew dart through a BART train headed for San Francisco. They need to find the next audience to wow ...

“She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011, when she handed the artistic ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Make no mistake, Daisy Vazquez loves to perform. But Friday night was time to compete at the TURF dance battle held at the Oakland Museum of California. "I just like putting ...

*In the Bay Area, well Oakland specifically, there’s a new thing called ‘TURF‘ dancing, and the Oakland Museum of California/OMCA spotlighting it as part of its Black History Month Dance Battle event.

The evening commute on BART is Eric Bassett's time to shine. Bossett, 20, who performs as Kid Strobe, leads his seven-man crew onto a train at Powell Street Station in San Francisco and carves out a ...

Char� Johnson performs under the shadow of death. Every time the 17-year-old hip-hop dancer goes on stage with his group, the Architeckz, he looks inside himself and focuses on the anger and pain of ...

TURF, a dance style born in Oakland, was set to take to the national stage Friday with a competition at Frank Ogawa Plaza. TURF, which stands for "taking up room on the floor" through dance, features ...

Emerging from the streets in the early 2000s, turfing has become synonymous with Oakland. Short for 'taking up room on the floor,' the dance form unites dancers across The Town, with older dancers ...

Programmed by David Wilson Join an all-style dance tournament featuring the best of Bay Area turf dancing, hosted by Johnny5 of Oakland-based dance crew TurF FeinZ and founder of Turf Inc., which ...

Next up: Maybe Dancing with the Stars? When she's on-screen, Nikki DeLoach is often facing some sort of heartache she must overcome as her male counterpart falls in love with her resilience. It's ...