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Hakken (sometimes Hakkûh) is a form of dancing originating from the Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 Hardcore
Hardcore techno

Hardcore techno, often referred to as just "hardcore", is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK....
 and Gabber
Gabber

Gabber , gabba or hardcore dance music, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" literally means "buddy" or "friend"....
 scene. The term is mostly associated with the Gabber subculture.

In Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, the dance it is mainly referred to as gabber (noun) or gabbering (verb), named after the music it is performed with it.

The dance consists of small steps that quickly follow to each other to the rhythm of the bass drum
Bass drum

A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
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Hakken (sometimes Hakkûh) is a form of dancing originating from the Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 Hardcore
Hardcore techno

Hardcore techno, often referred to as just "hardcore", is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK....
 and Gabber
Gabber

Gabber , gabba or hardcore dance music, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" literally means "buddy" or "friend"....
 scene. The term is mostly associated with the Gabber subculture.

In Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, the dance it is mainly referred to as gabber (noun) or gabbering (verb), named after the music it is performed with it.

The dance consists of small steps that quickly follow to each other to the rhythm of the bass drum
Bass drum

A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
. The lower body (down from the pelvis
Pelvis

The pelvis or pelvic girdle is the irregular bone structure located at the base of the spine . In the adult human, it is formed by the sacrum and the coccyx, the caudal part of the axial skeleton, and a pair of hip bones, part of the appendicular skeleton or human leg....
) is the most important part, though it is not unusual to move the arms and torso too.

The dance is mainly performed to Hardcore house and more specifically Gabber
Gabber

Gabber , gabba or hardcore dance music, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" literally means "buddy" or "friend"....
 music. Because one is supposed to keep up to the beat of the song, the dance is usually done fairly quick, since the BPM
Beats per minute

Beats per minute is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of one's heart rate. A rate of 60 bpm means that one beat will occur every second....
 of this music style can easily reach 260 BPM.

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