Before you even walk into Nelson Town Hall on any given Monday night, you feel what's happening inside. Stomp, stomp, clap. A fiddler picks out a tune in the background, but it's almost incidental.

The iconic "stomp-stomp-clap" of Queen's "We Will Rock You" was born out of the challenge that rock stars and professors alike know all too well: How to get large numbers of people engaged in ...

In the halls of Portland’s Leodis V. McDaniel High School, you might hear the commanding chants and thundering stomps of the school’s cheerleading team. They don’t practice in a gym lined with mats, ...

A hodgepodge of hipsters in day-old clothes gathered closely together, playing obscure string and percussion instruments for a performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. It was November 2009, and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A cheerleading team in Oregon is here to bring it on. McDaniel High School's cheerleading program in Northeast Portland has been specializing in a non-traditional style of cheer ...