Antoine “Twan Twan” Humphries got his start dancing as a kid in 1985 to the jukebox in his great-grandmother’s Bronzeville restaurant.
Inspired by Michael Jackson and his older cousin, Humphries said, he would dance and earn money from the gangsters who once hung out at Lele’s Grill on 47th Street and Indiana Avenue.
He went on to become a member of the Chicago footwork scene’s first generation of dancers. Now, he hopes to create a hub in Roseland at the home of his nonprofit, The Urban Ark, to preserve that history. He also seeks to raise money to keep the dance going.
“When we come to Chicago, where do we go?” Humphries remembers tourists asking him, hoping for a hub to learn about the city’s unique dance style. “We don’t really have a place.”…