ENTITY · DANCE / MOVE

Pon di River

Well supported

A dancehall dance of the 2000s, named and popularised in the era when named moves and the records that answered them drove the dance floor. Origin and originator need corroboration from the dancers and crews involved.

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At a glance

Type: Dance / move →
Era: Street dances and micro-economies →
Confidence: Well supported

Share a memoryWrite it, say it, or send a photo.Correct this recordA date, a name, a spelling we got wrong.Add a source leadA flyer, tape, article or photograph.

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Footage

Elephant Man - Pon De River, Pon De Bank [River Bank Riddim] (Official Video) {VP Records}

YOUTUBE · rights discovery only · documents

Official youtube upload (channel: VP Records); embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.

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In stories

Story · Well supportedVersions, rewinds and dance argument

The rewind is a review. In the dance, a crowd decides in eight bars whether a record lives, and the argument about what it should be saying has run for forty years.

Story · Well supportedDancehall bodies, voices and vibes men

The record is only part of it. Dancehall is also a dance vocabulary, a weekly street calendar and a man on a microphone whose job is to make the room feel like something.