Club and festival lineups are overwhelmingly dominated by male artists. This has to change – and inclusivity riders for big DJs would be a good first step In the 1970s and 80s, dance music was born ...

Laser beams illuminate a darkened restaurant-turned-dance hall in Cairo as revellers move to thumping beats from female DJs — part of a generation of women shaking up Egypt's underground electronic ...

What is it about music that makes even non-professionals want to hit the dancefloor, and is it disco, funk or even classical that does it best? Four leading choreographers discuss their theories, with ...

Although there are other dance music subgenres Black people are behind (Miami bass, New Orleans bounce), it's these four in particular that have been highlighted through Bey and Drake's latest ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Every year, Radio 1 Dance partners with BBC Introducing to search for the UK’s very best and undiscovered DJs who produce their own music Emerging DJs Declan Knapp and Baobei (宝贝) have won the ...

As 2020 gets underway, two things come to mind. Firstly, the way Antoine de Caunes, French co-presenter of late-night early-90s TV show Eurotrash, used to deliberately pronounce the word ‘decade’ as ...

Emerging DJs Boo and Shelly have won the opportunity of a lifetime to play on the iconic island of Ibiza by opening Radio 1’s Dance Weekend 2024 on Friday 2 August at 528 Ibiza. The nationwide DJ ...

The New York City nightlife scene is often depicted as a cutthroat world of intense competition and bitter rivalries. But as word has spread about the untimely death from a heart-related illness of ...