Dancing to Calypso and Reggae

[pygmalion]

I find myself doing a slooowww merengue to most, and salsa to much of the rest.

Does anybody else dance to reggae music (other than dance hall, which calls for grinding?) I'm talking traditional, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh stuff. (speaking of which, there's a traditional reggae version of Step in the Name of Love by Mikey Spice on XM Satellite Radio right now. :shock: :lol: )

[youngsta]

I dance to all forms of Reggae and there's no latin dance influence in it for me at all. It's a thing all it's own! :D

[pygmalion]

True, youngsta. Reggae used to have its own little "jig" type dance -- you know, the one the old Rasta men do? (check out the Bob Marley DVD for photos) -- until I learned structured dancing. Now I find myself fitting the music into dances I know. Hmm. Not good, I guess. :?

(btw, I truly think that reggae dance is easier to do under the influence of ganja. I've never found it easy, myself. Maybe I should start smoking. LOL.)

[youngsta]

A lot can be done with that little 'jig'. I remember when my mom and I went to the Reggae Sunsplash at the Tower Theater! Man was that a blast :D Steel Pulse, Denis Brown, Yellowman...those were the days.

[pygmalion]

Cool. I saw Lucky Dube, Yellowman, Rita Marley and a bunch of other groups at Sunsplash somewhere in Central Jersey. Lopatcong? Does that sound familiar? It was great.

(And the Tower? Well. That brings back some serious memories. I saw my first movie there, back when it was a movie theater. 8) :lol: They still do concerts there. I saw Joe Sample there, plus Spyro Gyra, Earl Klugh, the Hooters, etc, etc. Hmm. Memories. :D )

[Pacion]

"Where I come from, we call it wining" :lol: (pronounced whining) non of this "grinding" business :lol:


(old habits die hard :twisted: )

[pygmalion]

Not wining as in "wind your waist?" I have a calypso CD around here somewhere under that title.

And I should say, at least in my observation, calypso and traditional reggae dancing have SOME overlap, but not much. I started the thread with them together because I now find myself doing the same dances to them both, (salsa and merengue :oops: ) not because that's how it's been done historically by people who actually know what they're doing. :oops: :lol:

[cocodrilo]

Yeah, I love reggae too! Aswad, Ziggy, Ton Ton David(French reggae, VERY cool!!!)- how can you NOT dance to this music? At clubs where they play reggae, no one CARES how you dance, judges you or gives a flip what you look like. This "no-attitude" climate definitely apeals to me!

[Pacion]

Not wining as in "wind your waist?" I have a calypso CD around here somewhere under that title.

It's the same :lol: another way of saying it is "jock ya waist" with the "t" being silent :lol: