“We’re going to go right, left, right right,” Shamell Bell called out to a group of people learning to do “the Dougie,” a street dance created in Dallas.

With her choreography, this plus-size dancer does justice to curvy bodies, long condemned to oblivion. Passersby don't look at her as a strange creature, but with a touch of admiration.

And neither the art world nor the world of noncommercial dance is much more hospitable to an improvising street dancer, at least not one with Storyboard’s out-of-the-ordinary qualities.

Dancer and choreographer Rennie Harris (left) works with dancers to prepare for the premiere of "American Street Dancer" March 14 and 15 at Penn Live Arts (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa.

Armando "Decoy" Munoz is a Phoenix dancer who's found viral stardom popping and locking in the desert. Here's his story.

The dancer Storyboard P in New York, March 16, 2022. The gap between his category-defying artistry and his career options seems to expose a missing lane in American culture.

The city of Newark has erected a statue in honor of Eric "Uggie" Bowens, a popular Newark resident and street dancer, who was murdered in 2016. The statue is also part of Newark's movement to ...