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Grinding, also known as juking, freak dancing or freaking (in the
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Grinding, also known as juking, freak dancing or freaking (in the Caribbean
The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...
, wining) is an intimate and romantic close partner dance
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Partner dances are dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of t ...
where two or more dancers rub or bump their bodies against each other, usually with a female dancer rubbing or bumping her buttocks against a male dancer's groin. The male dancer will typically place his hands on the female dancer's hips or waist.
Grinding gained widespread popularity as a hip hop dance
Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture. It is influenced by a wide range of styles that were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in ...
in night clubs, and eventually became popular at high school dances and proms in the US and Canada where it has garnered controversy and has resulted in attempted bans.Ordway, Renee"A grinding halt for Bangor High School dances?"
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Bangor Daily News
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The ''Bangor Daily News'' was founded on June 18, 1889; it merged with the ''Bangor Whig an ...
'' (January 12, 2010). Accessed: July 2, 2011 A more graphic version called daggering
Daggering is a form of dance originating from Jamaica. The dance incorporates the male dancer ramming his crotch area into the female dancer's buttocks, and other forms of frantic movement. Daggering is not a traditional dance; it is of recent orig ...
involves a man slamming his genital area into a woman's buttocks.
See also
*Bump (dance)
The Bump is a form of popular dance introduced in the 1970s in the United States. Two partners, generally one male and one female, bump their hips against each other to the beat of the song. Sometimes the dance can be more suggestive, with the fem ...
* Frottage
* Sandungueo
Sandungueo, also known as ''perreo'', is a style of dance and party music associated with reggaeton that emerged in the late 1980s in Puerto Rico. This style of dancing and music was created by DJ Blass, hence his Sandunguero Vol. 1 & 2 albums and ...
* Twerking
Twerking (; possibly from 'to work') is a type of African-American dance, dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving Pelvic thrusting, throwing or thrusting the hips back or shaking the buttocks, often in a Partial squat, ...
References
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