Notes from the yard
Where the steps come from, who made them and what they answered to. Long reads, sources named, no shortcuts.
5 articles
7 min read
A realistic weekly plan for training Dancehall at home: warm-up, bounce work, progression, and the mistakes that take years to unlearn.
7 min read
Skank names a guitar chop and a dance. Follow that word from 1962 to today's riddims, and your steps stop landing on the beat.
8 min read
Two geographies, two lineages, two ways of filling a bar. What really separates Dancehall from Afrobeats — and what has always linked them.
8 min read
Five foundational Dancehall steps, in the order to work them — and the bounce you must own before any of them will read as Dancehall.
6 min read
Gerald “Bogle” Levy (1964–2005) gave Dancehall more of its vocabulary than any dancer before or since. A portrait, and why his name matters.
