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Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. [4] [5] Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s.
The butterfly dance is a dance move in which the dancer's legs repeatedly move or flutter like butterfly wings. It originated within the Jamaican music genre called Dancehall. [1] This dance move has been featured in Dancehall music videos since the 1970s. It has since become popularized along with the popularization of Dancehall music culture.
Among other opportunities for street dancing and parties, Passa Passa was also the location for the queering of the masculine Jamaican identity. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many Dancehall/Reggae songs started to espouse homophobic rhetoric, such as T.O.K.’s “Chi Chi Man,” while male dance crews were beginning to explode in ...
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The Dutty Wine is a Jamaican dance, typically performed by young women. [1] The dance originated in Jamaica as with many other dances like "Log on" and "Screechie". There are several dancers in Jamaica who claim they were its creator, among them a dancehall queen named Mad Michelle who refers to a video recording from 2003. [2]
The Bogle dance is a Jamaican-born dance move invented in the 1990s which involves the moving of one’s body in a longitudinal, ocean-wave motion while at the same time raising and lowering one's arms, aiding the wave motion. The dance move was engineered and created by Gerald Levy, a reggae dancehall legend.
Josey Wales OD (born Joseph Winston Sterling [c], October 9, 1958, in St. Mary, Jamaica) is a Jamaican dancehall singer. He has been called, along with Brigadier Jerry, Yellowman and sound system partner Charlie Chaplin, one of the best Jamaican dancehall deejays of the 1980s. [1]
Gerald Levy (22 August 1964 – 20 January 2005), better known as Bogle and also as Bogle Dancer, Mr Bogle, Father Bogle and Mr Wacky, was a Jamaican dancehall dancer and choreographer. Beenie Man called Bogle "the greatest dancer of all time" [ 1 ] and he is recognised as "part of the foundation and as an icon inside of dancehall culture."