Bre'oun Dance looks elastic. He moves from the ground to the air, dancing in between, in a matter of seconds. He stiffens his chest, pops it in and out, jerks it back. His arms swing like windmills.

IT was created by a birthday-party clown and looks like a spastic combination of street combat, African tribal dance and break dancing. But krumping – an explosive new West Coast dance style featured ...

In the new documentary “Rize,” people talk about the dance phenomenon called “Krumping” in much the same way they talked about break dancing 20 years ago: it’s not just a dance, it’s a cultural ...

The music starts up, masking the blare of the generator needed to power the stereo. The dancers begin, and almost like a relay, they take turns showing their moves. Their bodies shake and contort to ...

Think of krumping as a sped-up, aggressive, freestyle version of breakdancing. Dancers look like hyper mimes, exaggerating everyday movements. It’s rooted in the jerky, pop-and-lock moves pioneered in ...

Though the style first came into prominence within the street dance subculture in the ’90s, the 2005 documentary Rize introduced many in the general public to krumping. Some things take time, it seems ...

South Carolina Gamecocks star MiLaysia Fulwiley shared a social media video showing her dancing skills alongside American track and field star JaMeesia Ford. In the post, both athletes were seen doing ...

At the start of the stunning, explosively moving new documentary Rize, a few lines of text appear onscreen. The raw film shot for this movie, we are informed, “has not been sped up in any way.” Soon, ...