Twerking, a dance in which women provocatively thrust their hips in a squatting stance, now has musicians and fans going to war with the Tanzanian government, which has banned the dance ...

An Anchorage dance class aims to bring twerking back to its roots The move evolved from a West African dance used as a form of celebration and worship. Participants in a class that started during ...

South African singer Tyla took home the first-ever Grammy for "Best African Performance" for her hit song "Water." It may never have happened had she not created the song's now-viral dance.

Why is it termed as the indigenous twerk dance? Like the twerk dance, 'Borborbor' entails a rhythmic bending and straightening of the legs, accentuating the popping of the buttocks with each movement.

Twerkshop teacher Tricia Diamond grew up in New Orleans, where, as a kid, she studied Mapouka, an African dance that spawned twerking, she says.

By comparison, the act of twerking itself is largely harmless. Consider "daggering," the Jamaican dance, which could best be explained as a fusion of dry humping with an extreme sports mentality.

Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that ...

Ahead of the twerk competition at the Crocodile on April 8—with a $1,000 grand prize—she talked about finding joy in dance, how she became a New Orleans Baby Doll, and her new position as co ...