A quick-stepping dance has gone mainstream thanks to its crazy energy, competitive edge and campaigning force In the beginning, it was all about the shoes. In the early 1950s in Sophiatown, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask a pantsula how long he’s been dancing, and he’ll pause. Not because he’s doing the math-he’s just trying to remember that far ...

Ever experienced "gumboot" or "pantsula" dancing? I'm pretty sure I haven't, which is why I'm curious about the Festival of South African Dance, set for Sunday (Nov. 5) at the Holland Center. The ...

Mzuzephi Mathebula, or Nongolza, was a migrant worker who moved up north from the KZN during the late 1800s, presumably to eke out a living. He managed to do more than just that; he formed a band of ...

Teboho 'Tebza' Diphehlo is hoping to share the wealth. Originally from Soweto, South Africa, the renowned dancer has a goal of putting his home town on the map, thanks to the Pantsula style. Last year ...

It was there in the 1976 uprising. It was there alongside the Madiba jive in 1994 and it’s with us today, in our fashion, our music and our dance battles. Pantsula isn’t a trend. It’s a culture.

Arts journalist Adrienne Sichel says pantsula is "very much an urban South African dance form". Pantsula is the language of the township. Complicated rhythmic formations, gangster swagger and ...

For 30 years, beginning in the 1980s, the South African dance pantsula has grown in popularity in the black townships surrounding Johannesburg, but it's only become a mainstay of the capital city’s ...

JOHANNESBURG, July 7 (Reuters) - Thato Qofela first performed 'pantsula', a symbol of Black South African culture and resistance to the apartheid regime, in his childhood backyard. Now, he is helping ...

The song is about empowering women and in the video Beyoncé leads an army of women, who battle it out with men on the dancefloor. The video won many awards, including Best Choreography at the 2011 MTV ...

Some people will tell you that the internet killed style subcultures—or a least turned them into a global, universally accessible phenomenon. We say that’s bullshit. Even as the world is shrinking, ...