In parts of Europe, there are lance dances, dagger dances, and even rifle dances.
After staying at a raucous lodge in Manakhah where Yemeni men danced traditional dagger steps into the wee hours of the night (more to lure French female tourists to the dance floor than to celebrate their culture, I think), we drove a few miles to Al-Khutayb.
On the other screen a group of young black woman, with men hovering, rehearse a sexually explicit form of Caribbean popular dance called daggering in a murky Brooklyn nightclub.
Daggering, a sexually explicit dance style that has generated a firestorm of controversy in Jamaica in the past year, wasn't on display at all during Sean Paul's album-release concert at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday night.
In the 19th century, many a dagger on a cord danced before Macbeth's disbelieving eyes, and black greasepaint dripped off a succession of Othellos as red velvet curtains descended between scenes to effect the next tableau.
Venus, now in your skies, adds class, a cue to parade killer outfits, throw extravagant parties and dance with a dagger in your teeth.
In an early episode, she tells her young suitor that she is in "a heavy dancehall phase," and shows him a music video of the high-speed, violently sexual Jamaican dance style called daggering.
The other two members – Jillionaire and Walshy Fire – hype the crowd, and their dancers teach a hapless male member of the audience about the Jamaican dance style of daggering.
In recent auctions, successful sales have included an important carved-wood clan hat ($365,000), a wooden headdress ($185,000), a wooden comb ($125,000), a ceremonial dance blanket ($43,750), and a copper dagger ($23,750).
In "Tungam: Dance of the Terrifying Deities," they brandish daggers to pacify demigods annoyed by the advent of Buddhism.
