The beat speaks through his feet. Nelson Spires twists his body, slides to the right and then to the left. He’s moving in unison with more than a dozen other dancers. It’s soul-line-dancing night at a ...

Cha-cha right. Cha-cha left. Step up, step back and turn and turn ... On a recent Wednesday night this summer, more than 30 women and girls danced, laughed and learned those moves during a soul line ...

On a recent Tuesday inside Bowdoin Street Health Center’s community room, a group of dance students stepped in time to singer Keyshia Cole’s “Never.” Their footsteps punctuated instructions from Abiah ...

Gloria Kingcade calls this her ministry. Every Wednesday, she's at the Sheller Center in North Philadelphia, leading a room full of dancers through the steps of soul line dancing. "I've been teaching ...

When Sardia Lewis took the mic on a recent Tuesday evening in the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library auditorium to lead class, you would have never known it was her first time as an instructor.

Lynda Wallace of Bowie, Md., right, dances at a soul line dancing night in Jessup, Md., on Feb. 26. (Photo by J. Lawler Duggan for The Washington Post) The beat speaks through his feet. Nelson Spires ...