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That dance? Daggering-- which takes dirty dancing to brand new, uh, heights. Forget your tangos and even your lambadas, daggering is straight to the point as the titles to daggering songs like "Bend Over" and "Up In Her Belly" proove.
Jenna Romany thinks this takes the partying reputation of her Caribbean culture to an unnecessary extreme.
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That dance? Daggering-- which takes dirty dancing to brand new, uh, heights. Forget your tangos and even your lambadas, daggering is straight to the point as the titles to daggering songs like "Bend Over" and "Up In Her Belly" proove.
Jenna Romany thinks this takes the partying reputation of her Caribbean culture to an unnecessary extreme.
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The Caribbean is known for many things; beautiful beaches, calypso music and dances like the conga line. But now, there’s a new dance that’s sweeping the region.
"I think that my expression when daggering first came out was the same as everybody else. It was shock and awe. It was like what the hell is going on here?"
The dance is called “Daggering”, and it’s far from doing the conga line. It was developed by Jamaicans. You wonder what it looks like? Here’s Cherelle Dinchong:
"Daggering, Daggering for me is when someone aggressively thrusts their pelvic bone, into your derriere."
Wow!… ok. Some dancers go for more daring moves… like the one where the women are in handstands, with their legs spread part? The problem is that the dances can get out of hand and go terribly wrong. Here’s Cherelle again:
"They were daggering on a ledge and the next thing you know, the guy picked her up and thre...
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