“A flat footer plays the tune that musicians are playing. It’s not about making noise with your feet. It’s about making music with a toe and a heel,” Mr. Maupin told me. He looked me in the eye and ...

The surfboard. The buck jump. The Pac-Man. Such maneuvers are part of what Los Angeles choreographer/director Amy “Catfox” Campion calls the “movement vocabulary” of Memphis jookin’, a ...

RUTHERFORD COUTNY, Tenn. (WKRN) — He’s internationally known as one of the world’s best Buck dancers and he’s from right here in Middle Tennessee. His name is Thomas Maupin, and his life’s mission is ...

DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — You really can’t talk about the legacy of buck dancing in Tennessee without mentioning Dickson County legend Robert Spicer — but what is buck dancing, and who exactly ...