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Perreo & Cubaton girls

Cubaton is an intoxicating and passionate music mix as well as type of dance. It's sexy, wild and powerful yet smooth and erotic at the same time – just like PERREO, its dance. Its name is derived from the Puerto Rican slang term for "dog" (perro in Spanish). The newly-created word perrear translates to "dancing perreo". A male perreo dancer is called perro ("dog") and a female gata ("cat").

Perreo is thought to have emerged in the late 90s in Puerto Rico; exact details of its origin are unknown. Young Puerto Ricans probably blended the sexually-orientated grinding style of American Hip Hop with Reggaeton to provoke. From Puerto Rico, it quickly spread over to the Dominican Republic and tourists brought the dance to the States. Cubaton, along with perreo achieved world-wide popularity in around 2003.

It's a collective dance, which unites two bodies in a very erotic way by simulating sexual intercourse in a fun way. It's important to note that wherever perreo dancers don't care about how others look. Whether you're fat or skinny doesn't matter! Particularly Cuban women don't seem to worry about their bodies, because everybody is sexy and beautiful in their own way. It's important to wear the right clothes, though: super-tight and sexy.

Perreo is a street dance and there is no specific technique or choreographic routines, although recently some have tried to arrange some moves systematically. However, there are certain unwritten rules on what perreo should look like. Technically, perreo orients itself by the dancing style seen in Hip Hop video clips: male dancers bend their knees slighty to the beat, appear cool and casual, accompanied by typical Hip Hop gestures, while female dancers provoke with strong hip-swinging. This is combined with Latin-American merengue and salsa techniques with a twist: the mutual touching of the private parts is not only allowed but actually explicitly desired. Perreo thus breaks a taboo even in the otherwise sexually liberal Western world.

At every gig, in every club, there are perreo competitions where 8-12 young women are brought up onto the stage from the audience and can show off their perreo moves. The audience response determines the winner who generally receives the same price – a bottle of rum.

The Chupa-Chupa dance featured in Eddy K's Amigos video has some perreo elements, however is not danced as by couples. It was developed specifically for the Chupa-Chupa song. In Cuba, such moves are often incorporated into other Cubaton dancing styles.

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