Dawda Wine (2024)
In his sensual-rhythmical afrobeats track “Wine”, artist Dawda seems both musically and lyrically drunk on his infatuation with whomever he is addressing while he’s watching her dance: “When u wine up your body / It’s like u done stopped time when u move in slow mo / Baby I’m losing my mind when u back it up.”
While we of course can’t tell you exactly which dance move stops time for Dawda, we have good news on a more general front: A research team at the University of Northumbria (UK) has conducted two studies to find out which dance moves are seen as most attractive in heterosexual women and men. In the name of science, they had 39 women and 19 men dance to music, then generated avatars of the dancers and showed videos of these dancing avatars to a small number of participants between the ages of 20-35 in order to answer their research question: Which of these moves would pull?
The first round of results (2010) showed that men who used a lot of space while dancing, showed wide upper body movements and movement of the knees received the best ratings.
The participants rating the dancing women-avatars in 2017 liked swinging hips best, as well as some (but not too many!) asymmetrical movements in the arms and legs.
While these results are specific to the culture of this age group, place and decade and are based on only a small sample of dancers, you are welcome to test whether they also apply in the club of your choice. If they do, we’ll receive your thank-you present at the address listed on our website ;)
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