The New York Times shares a story about three brave dancers - Piisciis (25), Nova (25), and Axid (20) who joined anti-government protests in Bogota, Columbia, and fought the power with their - dance. “In that moment we were all connected in the message of the struggle, the resistance, empathy, strength and love” Piisciis said, while Nova added: “We resisted with art and vogue. We were scared, but the people and the love from the public was our gasoline to go up there and confront the police”. For weeks, thousands of people have crowded the streets of Colombia, protesting inequality, rising poverty and police violence. President Iván Duque has deployed the country’s military and police forces, and more than 40 people have died.

"People just want to dance" - veteran producer and DJ Sarz says to DJ Mag about street-hop, ever-evolving sound of the 16-million people megacity of Lagos, Nigeria. It’s a mutating sound: even its most basic elements are in motion, influenced by hyperactive, ephemeral street trends. Dance music in Lagos is a percussion-heavy sound with a pitter-patter of percussive progression. DJ Mag speaks to some of street-hop’s key artists, like DJ Kaywise, Rexxie and Sarz, to find out how it’s evolved and where it’s going next.

Music Journalism Insider chose six best documentaries about dancing. There are; 'Madonna: Truth or Dare' (1991) about her extravagant Blond Ambition tour; 'Strike A Pose' (2016) tells the story of the dancers from the 'Madonna...' docu, it casts an entirely different light on the former story; 'I'm Tryna Tell Ya' (2014) about Chicago dancers who started out as producers; 'The Summer of Rave 1989' (2006) about times of happiness and euphoria (and some drugs); 'Cunningham' (2019) about influential and somewhat radical choreographer Merce Cunningham; 'Only When I Dance' (2010) about Rio de Janerio teenagers whos only way out of poverty is ballet.

Dancer Dave Toole who appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics Games in London, performing an aerial routine suspended high above the Olympic Stadium, has died at the age of 56, BBC reports. Mr Toole, who was born without the use of his legs, was a professional dancer for almost 30 years and toured the world in a number of productions. He was appointed OBE in January for services to dance and disabled people. Alan Lane, artistic director of the Slung Low theatre company, described Mr Toole as an "extraordinary talent", and his 2012 performance as "mighty, beautiful and with a grace utterly beyond the ordinary human".

"Khadifa Wong’s new documentary, 'Uprooted', reveals that the popular image of jazz obscures the true history of a dance form of African descent, born of slavery and enmeshed with the African American experience – from cakewalk to Charleston to Lindy hop – but then dominated by a series of white mem" - Guardian says in a review of the new documentary about jazz dance. It covers Marilyn Monroe’s choreographer Jack Cole, Patrick Swayze’s mum, Patsy, the only teacher in Texas who took black students alongside white, JoJo Smith, who was John Travolta’s dance consultant on 'Saturday Night Fever' etc.

Fact magazine presents multidisciplinary artist Cecilia Bengolea with a 13-minute video 'Dancehall Weather' where performers dance at various times of a day and in various weather conditions. “Dancing in the wet weather of the Caribbean, sweat and tropical rain further dissolve the boundaries between inside and outside”, says Bengolea, “reminding us perhaps that inner body fluid is an electrical conductor that functions for the body in similar ways to the synapses of the brain”.

"I know a lot of people, especially in the United States, are not motivated to do that [dance]. They don't really put dancing in the same sentence as rock music. But, when you go back to the birth of rock music, that's what people did. They danced to it. I hope that spirit can come […]

In the 1970s and 80s Mogadishu's airwaves were filled with Somali funk, disco, soul and reggae. Musicians rocking afros and bell-bottom trousers would perform at the city's trendiest nightclubs during the height of the country's golden era of music. Somali Night Fever tells the story of the people keeping Somali music alive, including two friends, […]

The latest social media dance obsession, 'the Triangle', involves three people holding on to each others shoulders and jumping in-between each other in a pattern, and it will replace floss, well, it least that's what Guardian think.

According to dance movies, every dance performance must end in one of three ways: sex, madness, or death - Vulture makes a funny point and tries to find out the truth with Jesse Kovarsky, dancer and choreographer, and Ani Taj, director, choreographer, and dancer.

Guardian made a list of 15 of the best finger-pointing, hip-wiggling hits, form Limp Bizkit's 'Rollin'' to Village People's 'YMCA'.

Neurosurgeons have described in detail how Michael Jackson achieved biomechanically impossible dance moves in his music video Smooth Criminal. In the 1987 routine, Jackson leans from the ankle at a 45 degree angle, while keeping his body straight as a rod. The illusion, which many have tried to copy, was thanks to specially designed shoes […]