"The Twist" was already on the Billboard Hot 100 before Chubby Checker ever danced it on television. The song entered the chart on Aug. 1, 1960, debuting at No. 49, and Dick Clark had been playing it ...

Popular music in the 1960s was a magical thing. The songs were imbued with something fantastic and almost innocent. There was a joy to the sounds, to the industry itself, that doesn’t exist as much ...

Quentin Tarantino hired 1960s dancing "it" girl Toni Basil to choreograph the big Playboy party in "Once Upon Time in Hollywood." Writing for The New York Times, dance critic Debra Levine recently ...

Firstly, a little background. According to The Harvard Crimson, The Rolling Stones went to see the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in Los Angeles sometime in the 1960s. The Stones found the Turners’ ...

There’s nothing quite like dancing to put you in a good mood. When the day is long, a little movement can shake the hard times away. But then again, it’s not always easy to find the songs that will ...