Moshing
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Moshing is a style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other. Taking place in an area called the mosh pit, it is typically performed to aggressive styles of live music such as punk
Turnstile mosh pit in Baltimore, MD
Crowd surfing over a mosh pit
Audience members moshing to American thrash metal band Toxic Holocaust
Onyx helped popularise moshing in hip hop with their 1993 single "Slam".
Skank (dance)
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Skanking is a form of dancing practiced in the ska, ska punk, hardcore punk, reggae, drum and bass and other music scenes.
Moshing
…Beginning around 1983, metalheads began to refer to the slower sections of hardcore songs as "mosh parts", while hardcore musicians had called them "skank parts". Once Stormtroopers of Death released their debut album Speak English or Die in 1985, which included the track "Milano Mosh", the term began…
Two boys skanking