IT was created by a birthday-party clown and looks like a spastic combination of street combat, African tribal dance and break dancing. But krumping – an explosive new West Coast dance style featured ...

Accomplished photographer and music video director David LaChapelle is known for training his creative eye on stars like Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera, but for the past three ...

In 2005, fashion photographer David LaChappelle made a documentary called “Rize” about a dance style that was born on the streets of LA. Now, two of the dancers featured in the film are taking this ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tommy Johnson tells us that being a clown saved his life. He was a “big-time” drug dealer in Los Angeles. He went to jail. These facts are recounted early in ...

Dance2Connect, founded by Matt Sczerzek, is a professional programme bringing street and contemporary dancers together in a supported space for exchange, growth and creative connection. The programme ...

Given David LaChapelle’s hipper-than-thou status as a sought-after fashion photographer and music video director, I expected “Rize” to be an exercise in visual wankery, each shot designed and tweaked ...

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.

In a small Inglewood house near the end of a quiet, dead-end street, Marquisa “Miss Prissy” Gardner and Christopher “Lil’ C” Toler are mock arguing about a bag of Martha’s burritos he’s carrying. “You ...

Outrage wants to share krump's principles with a new generation. It’s a winter’s day at the beach in Southern California—meaning it takes no time before professional dancer Darren “Outrage” King peels ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...