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A couple grinding (or "perreando") on the dance floor

For other uses, see Grinding (disambiguation).

Grinding is a slang term for a relatively raunchy dancing style popular in house and hip-hop dance moves. Grinding almost always involves two or more dancers rubbing their bodies against each other in a sexual manner. It is often performed at nightclubs and parties that play house and hip-hop music. Grinding has also gained popularity at high school and middle school dances across America. The meaning is basically the same as the self-describing term bump and grind for party dancing. Elements of "grinding" may be seen in a 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, and "grinding" is sometimes referred to by this term as well. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Bump and grind is a style of party partner dancing that basically amounts in bumping each others hips and buttocks and suggestive rubbing of bodies. ... Slang is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began among urban African Americans and Latinos in New York City in the early 1970s, and has since spread around the world. ... A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... A party is a social gathering intended primarily for celebration and recreation. ... House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began among urban African Americans and Latinos in New York City in the early 1970s, and has since spread around the world. ... Bump and grind is a style of party partner dancing that basically amounts in bumping each others hips and buttocks and suggestive rubbing of bodies. ... Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical and romance film directed by Emile Ardolino. ...

Grinding has also been referred to as houseing, "juking" and freak dancing. The perreo, a Puerto Rican dance associated with reggaeton, is a type of grinding; The word 'perreo' is derived from the spanish word for 'dog'.

Techniques

The most common dance techniques involved in grinding are, but not limited to:

• The partners face the same direction so that the one partner’s buttocks are rubbing the other partner’s groin. A variation of this technique has one partner supporting her or his weight with one or two hands on the floor (buttocks in the air) while the other partner, holding her or him by the waist, grinds on the buttocks in a manner that simulates the doggy style position. This variation of the dance is referred to in the music genre of reggaeton as perreo.
• The partners, facing each other, straddle each other’s thighs. This may or may not facilitate the rubbing of genitals through their clothing.

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Music

The accompanying dance music may vary but tends to be related to hip-hop or house, and most often conforms to 808 and 909 drum machine driven tracks; operating within a comparatively narrow tempo range (between 118 and 135 bpm). Roland TR-808 Introduced in late 1980, the Roland TR-808 was one of the first programmable drum machines. ... Roland TR-909 The TR-909 was a partially analog, partially sample-based drum machine built by Roland Corporation in 1984. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... Beats per minute (bpm) is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of ones heart rate. ...

Further reading

• Catherine Gewertz (2001-02-28). "Freak dancing" craze generates friction, fears. Education Week 20(24): 1 – 16.

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See also

• Frotteurism