"One-two-three, four-five-six -- basic," Veronica Austin calls to the line of beginners stepping shoulder to shoulder in a downstairs strip-mall studio. Wearing looks of serious concentration, they ...

Chicago has the Cubs. Chicago has the Lakefront. Chicago has the Sears Tower. And Chicago has step dancing, called, appropriately enough, Chicago Steppin’. When JoJo Newsom moved to Baton Rouge more ...

On a recent warm Thursday evening, Nia Bradley, a tall, long-legged woman in bluejeans and high heels, danced back and forth near the door of the Lakeside Lounge in what looked like a slowed-down, ...

Zakeeyaw Toney didn’t complete her move to Las Vegas from Chicago nearly 20 years ago because her craft kept her going back. Toney witnessed Chicago-style steppin’ for the first time when she visited ...

A graceful, elegant partners' dance that originated within the black community in the city for which it's named, Chicago steppin' dates to the early- to middle 20th century and is known as having its ...