This story originally appeared in the January 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. New Year’s resolutions often focus on ...

The dance steps come in on the lyric, “Did your boots stop workin’?”: Right heel, left heel, right heel, lift and tap the right foot forward then back, pivot turn, and swirl an arm overhead like a ...

Dozens of students followed her lead as they practiced each dance step across the Old Union patio, standing alongside each other in rows. When Smolnicka-Dos Santos played “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by ...

For Ava Stratford-Davies, line dancing is more than just a hobby. The 16-year-old has enjoyed the country dance style since she was seven, following in the footsteps of her mum, grandmother and ...

One recent Wednesday night in Atlanta, dozens of people gathered in a studio space armed with water bottles, hand fans, towels and an expectation to be in sync. There were hugs among the regulars ...

On Wednesday evenings in Hampstead, dancers gather at The Coon Club, a hunting club, bar and dance space tucked behind trees off a rural Carroll County road. On a recent Wednesday, a group of 22 ...

Line dancing, a vibrant and inclusive form of social dancing, continues to captivate enthusiasts across generations and genres. Rooted in American folk traditions, it gained widespread prominence ...

On a recent Tuesday inside Bowdoin Street Health Center’s community room, a group of dance students stepped in time to singer Keyshia Cole’s “Never.” Their footsteps punctuated instructions from Abiah ...

Believe it or not, we’re unsure where line dancing originated. The method of dancing in a line or a square to a series of choreographed steps is usually associated with country music. But similar ...