TURF dancing was born from the rhythm of Oakland and developed in conversation with the world. An acronym for Taking Up Room on the Floor, TURF is a prominent dance style from the San Francisco Bay ...

Garion Morgan, a.k.a. Icecold 3000 of the Turf Fienz, dancing near the Port of Oakland in 2019. In recent years, turf dancing has undergone a revival, extending and building upon its hyphy-era origins ...

A recent Friday, 1:37 p.m.: Calling themselves the Turf Feinz, the four members of the Turf dance crew dart through a BART train headed for San Francisco. They need to find the next audience to wow ...

*In the Bay Area, well Oakland specifically, there’s a new thing called ‘TURF‘ dancing, and the Oakland Museum of California/OMCA spotlighting it as part of its Black History Month Dance Battle event.

Arthur Gardner, a.k.a. Dopey Fresh, spends many mornings trying to rouse BART commuters out of an iPhone-induced stupor. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!” he calls out to the crowd on board the ...

On a cold and rainy October day, four men gathered on two corners of 90th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. What they did next captured the attention of more than a million YouTube ...

Last year’s Art & Soul came with lofty ambitions. Specifically, the organizers wanted to mark the event’s ten-year anniversary by featuring an all-Oakland lineup. It took a lot of work, said Samee ...

"I don’t think that the Hyphy Movement would’ve even reached international attention without Turfin. We brought the Hyphy in Hyphy and exalted the culture." The Bay Area dances a little different.

Periodically a young man I thought was just standing around started moving - an arm, a leg, a foot. The spontaneity of the movement made it seem as if he and the others around him were dancing all ...

The street code has its own commandments. Thou shalt be down with thy set no matter what. If someone shoots one of yours, you retaliate. If you get arrested for a crime you didn’t commit, you take the ...

ON A COLD and rainy October day, four men gathered on two corners of 90th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. What they did next captured the attention of more than a million YouTube ...