

Hardcore dancing is taboo at traditional punk and metal shows. It appears to have evolved from the "slam dancing" that was and still is common a punk shows.

This involves a lot of fake karate and punching the ground and stuff like that. If you're at a metalcore, new york hardcore, beatdown hardcore, or contemporary post-hardcore show you might run into a pit that consists of "hardcore dancing". " Circle pit", which is literally just people chasing each other in a circle and trying not to get trampled. It is not uncommon for movement in a pit to organize itself into a circle, at which time it becomes a. I've been at shows where it's just a couple of people running around and I've also been at shows where people are so tightly packing that you can hardly move at all. It's interesting to not that the dynamics of pits change depending on how dense they are, too. This is the standard at traditional punk/hardcore/crust shows but may be found elsewhere. The standard pit simply involves people running around and bumping into each other. Mosh pits are areas of playful violence that typically occur at punk rock, heavy metal, and metalcore concerts.
