As hip-hop turns 50 on Friday, one of its pillars, breakdancing, was on display last weekend in Phoenix at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship. The event featured 3,000 dancers from at least 37 ...

It’s still superior hip-hop dance. The most affecting number is called “A Day in the Life.” Set to a hauntingly quiet track by Dhafer Youssef that builds to muezzin-like keening, ...

BSR Queen Dance Crew, a Brockton-based dance team, combined three dance companies to compete for the Hip Hop International title, which Rateau said is like the “hip-hop Olympics” for dance.

In his 40 years as a DJ, Sean “DJ Spen” Spencer has seen it all. As a teenager, he watched hip-hop become a cultural force, opening for acts like Run-DMC and LL Cool J with his group Numarx.