And if you saw their dancing, hips shaking to drumbeats fast as gunfire, you'd think a puritanical Islam couldn't stand a chance here.

She came as the guest of a pal, a young Colombian woman who was expertly hip shaking nearby.

On Tuesday he displayed his patented primal choreography, fists pumping, hips shaking, sneer intact.

Where else will you witness restaurant patrons deliver such a heart-rending, quasi-English rendition of an Usher R&B ballad, followed by double-jointed hip shaking to Jamaican dancehall and Egyptopop?

Local hipsters get sweaty on a bill guaranteed to stimulate some convulsive hip shaking.

"The movements, the hip shaking, it just feels great."