Salsa dancing is seeing a spike in popularity thanks to Giant's wide receiver Victor Cruz, whose touchdown celebration dance has spawned a large collection of YouTube videos (even the Times is ON IT). To celebrate the Giants big win last night why not learn the moves yourself? Not only will you look cool when you hit da club, it's also a great form of exercise—gotta burn off those 35 chicken wings you scarfed down yesterday somehow. There are plenty of studios all over the city but we've picked a few to help you get started on your hot new salsa dancing career. more ›

Sure, we may be done with the Girl Walk // All Day film premiere, but this dance party just got extended! Here's an outtake of John Doyle, who played "The Creep," dancing in Central Park in between takes for the film. This one doesn't include any music by Girl Talk, rather a Hood Internet mix of DMX and The XX. Like the moves you see here? Doyle just added a second Skillshare class of Hip Hop for Beginners on February 12th, which you can sign up for here more ›

Yesterday, between 15,000 and 20,000 people marched from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park as part of Occupy Wall Street's single largest rally since they took up residence in the park three weeks ago. OWS protesters were joined by unions and students for a march which was by turns peaceful and incredibly tense—that tension came to a boil when NYPD white shirts beat protesters trying to push past a barricade. But it really wasn't all pepper spray and Michael Moore speeches: there was also plenty of room for drum circles, chanting, and little kids dancing. Below, check out a video (skip to :54) of an adorable tyke doing his part to protest Wall Street greed—by harnessing the power of a carefully orchestrated (and dizzying!) dance. more ›

We're used to hearing about thieves targeting iPhones or bikes...but tutus and teddy bears? Police are searching for a tutu thief (or thieves) who stole nearly $17,000 worth of ballet costumes from an upper West Side dance company. In a separate incident, they're also looking for a thieving duo who pilfered a bunch of teddy bear centerpieces from the bris for the 8-day-old twin grandchildren of Brooklyn Councilman Michael Nelson. more ›

Put on your red shoes and dance this weekend in celebration of National "Do The Robot" Day, organized by the Dance Liberation Front (mission: "to fight the archaic New York City Cabaret Law...and cut a mean fucking rug!"). more ›

Yesterday afternoon, the students at PS 161 in Harlem were in for a bootylicious surprise during their PE class, when none other than Beyonce herself stopped by the gymnasium to dance to her song "Move Your Body" with them (in four-inch heels, no less). Looking fine while shaking in her tailfeather in an all-white getup, Miss B is clearly having a good time, and the kids are nothing short of thrilled. more ›

Looking for something free to do this weekend? Looking for something that doesn't require opening your eyes? The New York Public Library is hosting dance group Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums this Saturday at 2 pm—and if you go, you'll be blindfolded as the dance goes on around you! more ›

Remember that epic video project combining Girl Talk's latest album with improv dancers and all of New York City? Well if you want to see more, consider helping out the team behind the Girl Walk // All Day project—you can drop some change in their cup right here. more ›

Recently the Staten Island Ferry became the epicenter of indie cool, albeit briefly, when improvisational dancer Anne Marsen (and a supporting cast of contemporary dancers) joined forces with the new Girl Talk album. Part of the video can be seen below... but the ferry's 15 minutes aren't up just yet! The team behind the video promises it's nowhere near completion—they call it a music video of "epic proportions," and say they'll be shooting through the spring of 2011. After some polishing, the piece will be screened in public (hopefully on the ferry!) and be made available online. more ›

Some pro tips for tourists visiting New York for the first time: Taxis light up when they're available, you'll want to avoid putting your feet up on subway seats, and if you're stuck in traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel, it's best not to jump out and run toward Manhattan on foot. And that goes double when you're wearing combat fatigues. This was the life-lesson learned Wednesday night by a teenage step dance troupe from Jacksonville, Florida, whose desperate dash shut down the tunnel for over 45 minutes during rush hour. more ›

About a month ago, France's Swing Jammerz took their "I Charleston" series to New York, grabbing dancers off Facebook and sending them dancing, flash-mob style, to some of the city's most famous attractions. And now you can watch the video! more ›

The Tullett Prebon bond trader accused of forcefully tangoing with an administrative clerk and then stepping on her breasts has previously been accused of showing up to work drunk and sexually harassing female employees. Victim Jessica Franqui's lawyer, Barry Weiss, told the Staten Island Advance, "There are other allegations out there and we're gonna get to the bottom of it." Franqui has also been unable to return to work since the incident. Weiss said, "My client is completely devastated. She can't get her life together." more ›

Bond trader Marcus Bolton of Tullett Prebon is being sued for $20 million after stealing a dance from the wrong Staten Island girl. Administrative clerk Jessica Franqui claims she was the only woman on the trading floor when Bolton arrived on the evening of January 6th, and says he drunkenly grabbed her and began to tango. She struggled away and fell to the floor, where Bolton allegedly pinned her down with his foot. When asked to explain himself, Bolton allegedly told Franqui, "They [your breasts] are big, and you probably didn't even feel it." Apparently he was so drunk he forgot how breasts work. more ›

Yesterday was the fourth annual Dance Parade, starting in the Flatiron District and ending up in the East Village. Dancers and spectators alike shimmied on a fine May day. Here are just some of the photos of the excitement. more ›

Investigators have released surveillance videos of a man they believe viciously attacked and possibly sexually assaulted a woman in a Midtown bar after she refused to dance with him. Cops are trying to track down the suspect, who allegedly followed a 30-year-old nurse into a bathroom early on Thursday, barged into the stall, and left her bloodied and unconscious with a fractured skull, a broken nose and a broken eye socket. more ›

According to the Brooklyn Paper, a Park Slope youth dance troupe (sounds like Sparkle Motion to us!) had their airfare money stolen by a crooked travel agent. The two dozen or so teens had been selected to perform at an international competition and following the incident feared they may have to skip it. more ›

Merce Cunningham, the influential American choreographer, died at age 90 yesterday. The NY Times' Alastair Macaulay writes Cunningham "was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater...Mr. Cunningham ranks with Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine in making people rethink the essence of dance and choreography, posing a series of 'But' and 'What if?' questions over a career of nearly seven decades." And the Washington Post notes "he created a body of work that looks like none other -- plotless, spacious and often leisurely paced works, characterized by the clarity, calm and coolness of the dancing" with "an elegant and rigorous dance technique based on ballet's pulled-up stretchiness, the weightedness he absorbed from Martha Graham, with whom he danced before striking out on his own, and his own ways of twisting, folding and releasing the body." His bio on his dance company's website says besides being hailed as the "greatest living choreographer," "earlier in his career he was also one of the greatest American dancers" and "before he was a modern dancer, Merce was a hoofer." Cunningham also collaborated with his life partner, John Cage, until Cage's death in 1992. more ›

By now you've probably heard the Phoenix song "Lisztomania," and you've probably seen the Brat Pack tribute video that hit the Internet soon after its release, but it's always worth another few hundred listens. Leave it to a bunch of Brooklynites to create a tribute to the tribute. How delightfully derivative! That's right, here, contained within the same 4 minutes and 16 seconds, you get hipsters, '80s nostalgia, graffiti, rooftops, the Manhattan skyline, the Water Taxi, and dancing dancing dancing. more ›

A reader caught an impromptu one-man dance party on the R train Monday night. She tells us that "going from Manhattan to Brooklyn around 10pm...this guy jumped on the car with a boombox and wearing 80s workout gear. It was clearly some sort of stunt but he seemed to be operating on his own and kept bouncing into different subway cars at each stop." more ›

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch’s famous 16th-century triptych of innocence, licentiousness, and perdition, is the kind of astonishingly detailed masterpiece you can get lost in—each panel is packed with so much extraordinary activity that it's a challenge to take it all in as a whole. Which is part of the reason why choreographer Martha Clarke's dance-theater interpretation of the painting is so compelling; by channeling the spirit of the painting into live performance, the audience can immerse itself in the overall essence of Bosch's startling vision. more ›

Seventy-three zombies came to life this morning to break the Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously reenacting the dance from Michael Jackson's Thriller video. (The previous record was 62, set in Toronto in 2006.) The title was reclaimed by the U.S.A. today at 10:00 a.m. EST inside Madame Tussauds’ in Times Square, where the wax figure of Michael Jackson gazed proudly down upon dancing zombies who traveled from as far away as Ohio. more ›

Angie Pontani and her "world famous sisters" are arguably the brightest stars in the city's booming burlesque scene; or at least the most recognizable to mainstream audiences who don't spend much time at the Slipper Room. Pontani is currently starring in a funny/sexy revue she co-wrote with incorrigible cut-up Murray Hill, who emcees the evening. Called This is Burlesque, the two-act extravaganza tap-dances along a fine line between unrepentantly ribald humor and classy, atavistic burlesque without losing its spontaneous charm. (Read the full review.) We recently spoke with Pontani about the show, her love of grilled cheese and her exercise regimen. more ›

Jen Dunlap, a painter, and Celia Rowlson-Hall, a writer-director-choreographer, decided to combine their many talents for a one-of-a-kind art show. Wanna Come to My Place? will saturate Supreme Trading with their art, performance and everyday life tomorrow night. They even traveled all the way to Coney Island to create a video invite. more ›

Could Bloomberg’s nanny state be loosening up? The Daily News has it that the mayor is considering relaxing the city’s Prohibition-era “Cabaret laws,” which make it illegal for three or more people to dance in a bar or restaurant unless the owner gets a costly and difficult-to-obtain permit. "We either want to eliminate the license or establish a different license so that it would be less onerous for people to engage in dancing," says an anonymous source in the Mayor's office. more ›

The countdown is on, and even the pickiest of neighbors can't complain of noise at this evening's public rave. An "exchange student who only moved here from London a few months ago!" is behind the outdoor public and SILENT rave (yes, of course there's a Facebook page dedicated to it).

The basic premise is thousands of people turn up in a public place, plug in their own iPods, listen to their own music and dance and rave for hours!