By Mahsa Hojjati Beneath a wealth of dark curls, the artist moves. As I follow the rippling current from his fingers through his wrist, elbow, and shoulder, a flip of his neck guides the ripple through the opposite arm, back down a twisting torso, through gliding legs and sliding feet into infinite turns reminiscent of
By Philip Szporer Victor Quijada recalls a key incident from his late teens quite clearly. His girlfriend at the time, a classically trained ballet dancer, was a huge fan of hip hop. After introducing her to the Los Angeles freestyle cypher world he knew so well, she said, “I wish I could dance like that.”