Krista Henry, Staff Reporter

Dance Xpressionz's Orville Hall and Shelly-Ann Malcolm perform at the GSB Co-operative Credit Union brunch.- Rudolph Brown

Bogle captured the unprecented interest in dancing with the now popular phrase 'everybody can dance but a nuh everybody a dancer'.

One only has to visit YouTube to view the hundreds of clips of Jamaican dancers and dances and the corresponding thousands of views received to acknowledge the huge success of dancing 'to the world'.

From every 'drum pan' knock in the streets, to Passa Passa, Bembe, Uptown Mondays and the countless other street dances, patrons can count on seeing several dance cliques and individual dancers vying for the video light.

While some dancers wow with their quick foot movements and agile bodies, making patrons wish they too could dance, not every dancer makes the cut.

For Orville Hall, dance instructor and leader of Dance Xpressionz there can never be enough dancers but there can be too many dances.

According to Hall the dancing field like everything else is competitive and only those that have a passion for it will truly be known as dancers.

"It takes time, time to craft your ting and work hard, some people not true to the craft and follow it for hype but it gets filtered out over time, the best always prevail. You have persons that can do dancehall dances alone and call yuhself dancers, they don't know nothing 'bout traditional dances, how to dance hip hop, Latin, different genres," he said.

Hall says he admires as true dancers persons like Ice and John Hype who have stood the test of time and Shelly Belly, who he describes as being dynamic in his steps. Hall claims that to succeed on an international level, dancers need to learn to choreograph their work, take the moves off the street and learn different types of dances.

Keiva the Diva has been on the scene for many years as well, having begun dancing at age eight. While she doesn't think there are too many dancers on the scene she does believe there aren't enough professionals.

"Everybody can dance but not everybody a dancer, true dem see dancers a get visa and a go all over the place dem think is alright to dance. Mi caan dance in peace, too much of dem a lick me down and dem nah do nothing," Kieva said.

With the throng of persons on the dance floor it is hard to recognise that very few have the grace and expression of true dancers but those that do will always stand out in a crowd.

Left: Female dancer, Keiva the Diva says there are not enough professional dancers. Right: Hall says dancers need to perform other genres besides Dancehall. - Teino Evans