The Bronx Whine

The Bronx wine is a style of dance originating in the Bronx, New York. It is considered the dance crave of 2012. The Bronx wine has a style of its own using hands, feet and body movements to go along with the rhythm. The dance has a base step that consists of leaning to one side while your legs are rotating in the opposite direction. While you continue to move your body in a up and down motion like a clock, you are able to add your own style and arm movements as you progress.The rhythm dictates how fast or slow you move your body. In the dace there is also a move called “ticking”. It basically means to move your butt in a sort of ticking motion of a clocks arms. Ironically the entire dance is referring to the motions of a clock, rotating clockwise or counter clockwise which ever way you prefer.

The Bronx wine takes a spin of the Jamaican style of dance. Both the Bronx wine and dutty wine are danced to a style of Jamaican music called Dance Hall. Dance hall is a sparser version of reggae. Dancehall came about in the late 1970’s and has continued to flourish across America. Dance hall in the 2000’s flourished Rhianna, Elephant Man, Sean Paul, Mr. Vegas, Vybz Kartel and Beenie Man. The dance experienced a surge of popularity around the world, especially in Jamaican communities in parts of the United Kingdom and North America.

Bronx wine has faded over the years until a 16-year-old boy from the Bronx named Carlos Almonte Brought the dance back to light. Almonte came from Dominican Republic when he was 12 years old. Be began to become interested in rapping and people began to see incredible potential in him. Over the years he learned English and is now a straight A student. Almonte produced a song with famous Reggeton singer Farruko Called Bronx wine. Almonte and his crew are dancing the Bronx wine in the background of his music video. The song is getting extreme publicity and several news channels have interviewed Almonte such as pix11, CBS New York and New York’s Daily News.

According to Brown and Keely the author used the fallacy Causal Oversimplification. This is explaining an event by relying on casual factors that are insufficient to account for the event or by overemphasizing the role of one or more of these factors. The writer explains how Almonte brought this dance crave back to light. However, there were many other people continued to play this music and practice this style of dance even when it decreased in popularity. This boy recieved so much credit for something that has been invented and practice way before he even decided to make this song.