A stage celebration of the homegrown Memphis dance style known as "jookin'" begins a national tour here next year. Conceived and choreographed in part by its star, renowned local dancer Lil Buck, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Jookin’ was born here in the Bluff City and ...

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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 ...

Jookin, born out of the Memphis rap music scene in the ’90s, is often referred to as "urban ballet". The dance, performed in sneakers as opposed to pointe shoes, is all about footwork: graceful slides ...