Classes are done for the day. Meetings and work are winding down, and Facebook can provide a study break for only so long. So what’s a restless Christian college student to do? For undergraduates at ...

JUST outside of Costa Rica’s busy capital, in a small andscantly lit nightclub on Guadalupe’s main road northeast of SanJosé, some of the country’s top dancers gather religiously tomove to a rhythm of ...

“Swing dancing is the pursuit of happiness,” says a sweetly earnest dancer early on in Susan Glatzer’s irresistible documentary “Alive and Kicking.” As you watch beaming duos twist themselves into ...

While spinning under the Sun Dome, The Country Dancing Devils offer a new twist on old traditions. Every Tuesday night, students are taught classic line and swing dancing. Country dancing is back in ...

It was a little hard to hear him over the sound of “In the Mood,” but Mark Nelson had an explanation of why a big crowd is drawn to Concord every two months to dance to music that’s nearly a century ...

Walk into the Brighton Dance Studio on a Tuesday or Thursday night, and you’ll hear a cacophony of songs ringing throughout the building and its several separate practice rooms. In the main space, the ...

Finally today, there was a time when going out on weekends didn't mean Netflix and chill or dining out at the latest restaurant. It meant going out to dance, and in the '20s and '30s that meant swing ...

Friday night at The Farm means a dance floor peppered with cowboy hats and flannels. Little lightbulbs hung above the crowded dance floor among the cardboard candy hearts that were put up for ...

Clarinetist Benny Goodman was in the midst of a faltering national tour with his young orchestra when he arrived in Oakland late in the Depression-ridden summer of 1935 for a brief run at McFadden's ...