“I knew that was going to happen.” But who leads isn’t as big an issue as you’d expect at Chicago Dance’s Fred/Fred & Ginger/Ginger ballroom dance class, the first such class in Chicago ...

HOUSTON — Just off Elgin and Emancipation Avenue, in the heart of Houston’s Third Ward, sits a cultural gem with a story that ...

Twirling encouraged.” Inside, Julie Wilson runs a business here in the family home, known by those who need to know as Encore Ballroom Couture. It’s considered the ballroom dance industry’s ...

I’m talking about the femme queens and butch queens of the ballroom world, a community founded by black and Latino queer people. A quick and necessary digression on the history of ballroom ...