The new documentary film, "Rize" looks at a grassroots dance movement that started in South Central Los Angeles, called krimping or clowning. This unique dance form is the brainchild of Thomas Johnson ...

In honor of the 10th anniversary of krump, an energetic street-style dance with African roots that originated in Los Angeles, USC Visions and Voices hosted a conversation in Annenberg 207 on Tuesday ...

Bre'oun Dance looks elastic. He moves from the ground to the air, dancing in between, in a matter of seconds. He stiffens his chest, pops it in and out, jerks it back. His arms swing like windmills.

The music starts up, masking the blare of the generator needed to power the stereo. The dancers begin, and almost like a relay, they take turns showing their moves. Their bodies shake and contort to ...

LOS ANGELES — It’s a short drive from the buttery glow of the Chateau Marmont hotel above the Sunset Strip, where fashion photographer David LaChapelle sips his pale-green tea, to the True Workers of ...

Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city. Background: ...

You probably have never heard of America's hottest new dance craze. CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that it isn't one you can learn from Arthur Murray. It's called krumping, or clown ...

Fun-loving Casper Smart’s relationship with Jennifer Lopez may be oft-ridiculed, but some details of his past are definitely no laughing matter. New reports reveal that Lopez’s much-younger beau, 25, ...

Nearly 100 children, teens and adults stood shoulder-to-shoulder inside the Pacifica High School gym in Oxnard staring — as if in a trance — at the glamorous-looking girl in front of them. “You guys ...