"NO big difference" - was how veteran dancer Professor Rex Nettleford compared current dance moves to the traditional ones.
"All of the dances do concentrate on the movement of the hips, the feet and the shoulder," he said.
The professor said that the moves found in the Brucking dance is similar to the Bogle dance with the dipping and movement of the hip.
He said even the Angel done to the popular song Dance The Angel by Harry Toddler is similar to the dinky mini a dance, which was done at, wakes (nine nights) in St. Mary in the 1960s.
"The attitude and the carriage of the head and arms and the top of the body," Professor Nettleford told THE STAR, is the same.
"What happens in today's dancehalls has its root in the traditional African dances. We Africans are predisposed to dance moving the hips, back, pelvis, and shoulders in a certain pattern," he said.
However Professor Nettleford said new dances are hard to study because they disappear as soon as they appear in the dance halls.
Dancer Bogle said Professor Nettleford told him the Bogle Dance looked like the Brucking dance. "He told me that in a meeting once... but is the father may be put it back in me," the dancer said.
Bogle, who invented the LOY, World Dance, Pat The Collar, and recently the Zip It Up, said he has never seen Brucking.
"I don't rehearse my dance I don't practise it I just pre (think about) it in my mind and then I just do it. When I do my dance dem at a dance sometime is the first time I doing the dance," he said.
He said he is not influenced by any other dance and all his moves are original. "Mi a dance from mi a pissing tail bwoy and me no follow anybody because me nuh need to follow anybody," Bogle said.
"I just made them up based on how I feel. I can a stand up outside a Gleaner and just start do a dance same time and I don't plan it, it just natural," he added.
Entertainer General B also believes that the new dances are just a remake of the traditional dances, "the only thing different is the name of the dance but they all the same".
"The dance remain the same is only the music that change. I can watch a black and white movie and see a dance and then I just do it over on a faster rhythm and call it the General B," he said.
