{"id":1043,"date":"2021-06-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2021-06-03T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:00:00","slug":"kizomba-angolas-ballroom-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/website_b1ce9d46\/kizomba-angolas-ballroom-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kizomba Angola\u2019s Ballroom Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(AGN) A fusion of African rhythm<\/a> and romantic music, a slow sensuous dance with your partner in a close embrace, Angola\u2019s kizomba seems to be slowly dancing its way into the hearts of many looking for a new dance experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kizomba is growing in popularity due to the relative simplicity of its movements, whose basic 1-2 steps don\u2019t require one to lift his\/her feet high off the ground. It does however require a bit of flexibility at the knees. The man leads the dance, beginning with his left foot, but the thrill of the dance is in not in executing complex maneuvers but in enjoying the inevitable sensual thrill that comes from dancing with a partner so close to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kizomba tracks are often in Portuguese or Portuguese-derived creoles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kizomba\u2019 is used to identify the dance and also a genre of music, both of which originated from Angola, but had slightly different influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u2018kizomba\u2019 exists in Angola\u2019s Kimbundu language, where it is used to refer to a party. However, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a direct relation between such traditional parties, famous in the \u201850s (\u2018kizombadas\u2019) and the modern music and dance known as kizomba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modern-day kizomba (dance and music) is believed to have developed sometime between the early 70s and 80s, based on semba, a traditional Angolan music\/dance. Brazil\u2019s world-famous samba developed from semba, which was transplanted to Brazil by slaves from Angola (both countries were Portuguese colonies, and Angola was a source of slaves from as far back as the 15th<\/sup>\u00a0century).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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