It's All About Dancing: A Jamaican Dance-U-Mentary (2006)
- Genre
- documentary film
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How it feels
This documentary explores Jamaican dancehall culture through interviews and instructional segments. It features local dancers, DJs, and selectors who explain the history and meaning of popular dance moves from the time.
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What happens
It's All About Dancing: A Jamaican Dance-U-Mentary is a 2006 Jamaican documentary film about dancehall culture. It includes instructional segments about several dance moves that were popular at the time, such as the "Air Force One" or the "Gorilla Warfare". The film features several dancehall selectors, DJs and dancers, almost all of whom are native to Jamaica; including Ding Dong, the host of the film, Beenie Man, Elephant Man, T.O.K., Mr. Vegas, Voicemail, Macka Diamond, Tanto Metro & Devonte, Tony Matterhorn, Scatta, Richie Feelings, Bogle, John Hype, Ice, Sadiqy & G-Unit, Latisha and Kiyo (dancehall queens). They describe the style, history, language and their personal definitions of dancehall culture, through interviews and monologues inter-spliced with improvisational dance sequences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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