Grinding (dance)
Grinding, also known as freak dancing or freaking or wining (in the Caribbean),[1] is a type of close partner dance where two or more dancers rub their bodies against each other. It has gained popularity at night clubs, and eventually moved on to high school and middle school dances especially in the US and Canada[2] where there have been cases of administrators attempting to ban it due to its explicit nature.[3]
A predecessor to grinding as a sexually-charged high-contact social dance is "The Bump", popular in the 1970s. Other predecessor elements of grinding may be attributed to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. The Lambada was a dance craze that featured grinding actions, as seen in the films The Forbidden Dance and Lambada. Perreo is a Reggaeton style of grinding.
[edit] References
- ^ Catherine Gewertz (2001-02-27). ""Freak Dancing" Craze Generates Friction, Fears". Washington Post (The Washington Post Company). http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=education/educationweek&contentId=A63657-2001Feb27.
- ^ 'Dance Like Grandma's Watching': High schools nationwide crack down on freak dancing, grinding New York Daily News, retrieved on 17 February, 2010.
- ^ "A grinding halt for Bangor High School dances?". Bangor Daily News. http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/134624.html. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
