footwork

noun3

1. •
   Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.

   • The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.
   • The horses impressed the riders with their unerring footwork, and the mountain goats simply astounded everyone with their surefootedness.
2. •
   (informal) Finesse.

   • It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen.
3. •
   A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.

   • In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident. — 2015