Hip Hop International’s (HHI) week-long competition that crowns U.S. and world dance champions in multiple categories concluded Saturday night as two defending champions repeated with gold ...

One of the first things Emilio Valadez ’18 of San Antonio noticed about hip hop dancers in Tokyo, particularly breakdancers, is that they’re really good. “I saw such great mastery of it during my time ...

DJ-producer Taku Takahashi was born, raised, and still resides in Japan, but he spent three years in Los Angeles for college. “I’m taking semesters off–for, like, 20 years,” he says with a laugh ...

August 11, 1973 marks the birth of hip-hop, when DJ Kool Herc held a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the South Bronx. He first introduced “the break” when he used two turntables ...

When Taku Takahashi created the website Otaquest a few years ago, the co-founder of the Japanese hip-hop/electronic group M-Flo and producer known as DJ Taku says the goal was truly simple. “The whole ...

Two fleet-footed east Auckland brothers are setting the standard for the New Zealand hip hop dance scene on the world stage. Raūl and Riān Gounder – cool, modest and enthusiastic students at Pakuranga ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Japan Society’s 2023-2024 Performing Arts Season will culminate with a ...

Dua Lipa dropped a remix of her single “Illusion” featuring Creepy Nuts, Japan’s breakout hip-hop duo that made waves with its viral hit ”Bling-Bang-Bang-Born,” the No. 1 song on Billboard Japan’s mid ...

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 ...

This is the radically abridged story of how, almost half a century later, it begat Strolling Company, a dizzying, abstract sample-fest by Japanese crew DRS, which Durham label Raund Haus released in ...

The World Hip-Hop Dance Championship concluded on Saturday, and six crews walked away with the gold and the cheers of the over 5,000 attendees at the sold-out Mullett Arena in Tempe. For a week, the ...