Dance Moves Potentially Dangerous

In the world of the dancehall, creating a new dance move can make you a star. Competition between dancers, though, seems to be leading towards potential injuries or worse.

Everybody remembers the controvesy around the Dutty Wine. Could it kill you or not??? Now though the hottest new dances on the Kingston streets are the Drop Dead and the Grievance. The drop dead involves the dancer to, unsurprisingly, drop dead. "If yuh see a big fat woman a Drop Dead she nuh mus hurt herself?" she asked.

"If yuh see a big fat woman a Drop Dead she nuh mus hurt herself? It's different when yuh can dance; when yuh can dance yuh know yuh limit. Audiences are doing dem and hurting demselves. Dem haffi understand is di same ting like entertainment - not everybody suppose to do it."

But what about the Grievance, a product of the Ravers Clavers crew, where a male and a female enact a fight between themselves? Some dancers aren't happ

"Is a dance like yuh beat di women and same time yuh wining. Yuh only fake though, yuh don't connect. A di women dem a mek di man dem do it. Really and truly, mi don't get miself involve, mi don't like it. Is only di real dancehall women who like it more dutty " says dancer Ice.

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