Joe Potier goes to a festival and attracts more attention than musicians on the bandstand. A hyperactive, zydeco dancer who gets down on his knees, back, stomach and other body parts, Potier has been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was March 1958 when an African-American dancer named Alvin Ailey, then making his living on the Broadway stage, gathered up a group of fellow dancers and presented a one-night show ...

When Robert Battle goes to visit Dessie Williams, the cousin who raised him, she loves to brag that she always knew he was special. "You didn't have to encourage him to do anything; he did them. He ...