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 ...
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 ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Make no mistake, Daisy Vazquez loves to perform. But Friday night was time to compete at the TURF dance battle held at the Oakland Museum of California. "I just like putting ...
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 ...
Emerging from the streets in the early 2000s, turfing has become synonymous with Oakland. Short for 'taking up room on the floor,' the dance form unites dancers across The Town, with older dancers ...
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 ...
If there are two dance forms that seem to be total opposites of one another, it's turf and ballet dancing. Turf dancing is an art form that was created by black youth in Oakland, and is characterized ...
OAKLAND, Calif. - Co-workers of Anthony Varner said he was a happy-go-lucky guy who loved goofy looking pit bulls and would always sing and dance – loudly – at work. “You could often hear Anthony ...
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 ...