The latest dance move, grinding, used most recently by Miley Cyrus, is causing a stir at school dances everywhere. MTV reports in a piece entitled “Miley Cyrus’ VMA Sex Show: Shocking Reactions To Crotch Grabs, Grinding And Too Much Tongue” about the singer’s choreography on the Video Music Awards:
Miley Cyrus promised her VMA performance of “We Can’t Stop” would be a crazier moment than Britney Spears and Madonna’s infamous 2003 kiss. And Miley made good on her word, proving that she doesn’t make promises she doesn’t keep—especially when it comes to twerking and taking off her pants. Miley’s “We Can’t Stop” performance, which morphed into a medley of “Blurred Lines” with Robin Thicke and 2 Chainz, ripped a page from the scandalous video’s treatment (apt since video director Diane Martel also helped conceptualize Miley’s “We Can’t Stop” performance), but with more teddy bears, far less clothing, and a giant foam finger.
MTV reports that one commenter tweeted Ms Cyrus could have taken him out to dinner before doing some of the choreography. For those who have never seen this dance move (which is hard to believe, so I’m not presenting any pictures with this story), “grinding” refers to a somewhat erotic dance move where a guy stands behind a girl, hips touching, and moves up and down against her. Say no more.
School officials are having issues with this dance move all over the country. It’s been a battle going on for years (Ms Cyrus wasn’t the first performer to make the move famous).
As a result, most schools have banned grinding at school dances. At one school, Red River High School in Grand Forks, N.D., officials made the rule that all dancing must be “face to face with space.” In other words, the boy is never to stand behind the girl, and there must be separation between the two dancers. Grinding is against both parts of that rule.
When the school’s principal, Kris Arason, saw students grinding on the dance floor as the school held its customary dance after the first home football game, he stopped the music and told students the next stoppage would be the end of the dance, the Grand Forks Herald reports. So about 150 of 200 kids walked out of the dance and met two miles south of town to dance as they pleased, he said.
A border patrol agent called police about the goings-on south of town, at a middle school where students had gathered. He said there was some loud music, some drag racing, but nothing any more problematic than that. By the time Grand Forks police arrived, only about 20 students were still there, and they quickly piled into cars and left the scene.
Now, lest you think this was some kind of protest against the rules, think again. Students just wanted to dance in a different style than what was technically allowed by the school; they therefore just went to a place where that kind of dancing would be allowed.
“They didn’t want to follow the rules, so they left,” the Herald quoted Mr Arason as saying. “Our kids, when they left here, I can say, it was respectful, too. They just all walked out, there were no verbal exchanges.”
