How a dance becomes a song becomes a movement

William "Willie Haggart" Moore, leader of the Black Roses Crew — the Kingston corner crew whose dances Gerald "Bogle" Levy led — and one of 1990s dancehall's defining personalities: patron, host and centre of gravity for the scene around Arnett Gardens. He was shot dead in Kingston in April 2001, and his funeral at the National Arena — vast, lavish and heavily covered — became a public event in its own right, opening a documented national argument about dancehall, money and mourning that scholarship still cites. The Willie Bounce dance name is widely linked to him.

A Jamaican dance or move associated with the street era.

Selector who became an artist: after building his name on the sound-system circuit — including a celebrated run with New York's King Addies — Matterhorn voiced "Dutty Wine" in 2006, the dance-instruction record whose title move swept dancehall worldwide and stirred its own controversy. Few careers show the selector-to-deejay path more clearly.

A charging, horns-styled dancehall move credited to the dancer Overmars (of the Ravers Clavers), who is also documented as creator of Nuh Linga, Paper Bag and Nuh Behavior.

Gerald Levy, born in Trench Town on 22 August 1964, was the dancer the dance was named after. As Bogle — later Mr Wacky — he led the Black Roses Crew and invented steps at a rate no one has matched: the Bogle itself, World Dance, Willie Bounce (named for his crew-mate Willie Haggart), Wacky Dip, Urkle, Sesame Street, Pop Yuh Collar, Row di Boat, Out and Bad. The significance is structural rather than decorative. In the 1990s and 2000s a Jamaican dance move arrived first on the floor and was then written into records by deejays chasing it, which made the dancer, for a while, the author of the music's direction. He was shot dead at a Kingston gas station on 20 January 2005, aged forty, after an altercation involving Beenie Man's entourage; two gunmen fired into his vehicle and he died at Kingston Public Hospital. Beenie Man later called him the greatest dancer of all time, and Rihanna put one of his moves in the video for "Rude Boy".

Badman Forward is a named dancehall move associated with Ding Dong and the Ravers Clavers-era vocabulary, circulating through dance songs, street events and video clips as part of 2000s dancehall's call-and-response movement culture.

One of the named dancehall moves of the late 2000s, danced low and prowling, and tied to the Gully side of the rivalry that dominated the period. Like most dancehall dances it arrived with a record to carry it and a video to teach it.

O'Neil Norman Bryan, born 11 September 1975, the deejay whose records did more than anyone's to make the 2000s dancehall era a dance era. He came up in Scare Dem Crew — formed in Seaview Gardens as the Seaview Family and renamed after Bounty Killer's hit "Big Guns Scare Dem" — before going solo in the late 1990s. What followed was a run of records built around specific dances, with the instruction in the lyric and the tempo shaped around the step, which is the tradition the Street dance grouping in this archive documents. His energy, his voice and his willingness to build a song around a move made him the most exportable dancehall artist of the period.

Ding Dong's recording-artist role covers the songs that package his dance vocabulary for circulation: tracks where movement instructions, crew identity and artist branding work together to move dances from Kingston events into global playlists and classes.

The dancehall custom of rival dance crews meeting to out-perform one another at street dances and on video, a competitive-but-collegial dynamic that echoes sound-system clash culture but is judged on steps and style rather than tunes, exemplified by the long-running Scare Dem Crew and Monster Shack Crew pairing.

Jamaican deejay best known for 'Raging Bull' (2007), a collaboration with Mr Vegas from the Hot It Up album on Delicious Vinyl that became one of the mid-2000s dance-craze singles driving new steps through Kingston's street dances.

The dance that swept Jamaica and the diaspora around 2006, built on a fast whipping rotation of the head and neck. Tony Matterhorn's record of the same name carried it, and it became one of the most widely imitated — and most argued-over — dancehall dances to travel abroad.