Kizomba ( port. Kizomba ) - a modern urban popular pair dance, as well as a musical genre. This dance originated as a mixture of traditional Angolan salmon and Caribbean zook : due to the similarity of the rhythm, the musical style of kizomb is sometimes confused with the latter. Kizomba is a sensual, romantic dance.
| kizomba | |
|---|---|
| Direction | African dances , social dances |
| The origins | salmon |
| Place and time of occurrence | 80s of the 20th century Angola |
| Subgenres | |
| Tarrashinha , urbaniz | |
| Related | |
| zook , salmon | |
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Origin and development
The word "kizomba" in the kimbundu language, where "kizomba" comes from "kuzomba", has a masculine gender and translates as "slowly follow" . In modern Portuguese, the notion of “kizomba” captures the feminine gender and the following meanings: African rhythm of Angolan origin; a dance performed to such a rhythm; in Angola, it means “batuka” and “holiday”, “entertainment” [1] .
Kizomba dance originated in the capital of Angola, Luanda in the early 80s of the XX century under the influence of traditional semba and merengue dances. Unlike salba, musical accompaniment and kizomba dance movements are characterized by a slower and, as a rule, very romantic rhythm.
It is believed that the dance arose at the holidays “kizombadash” ( kizombadas ), and the isolation from the slow salmon into an independent form matured over the decades of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century. For the first time in Angola, the word "kizomba" in Portuguese was used by Sib drummer Bibi.
Sylvie Clerfeulle, a French researcher of African culture, shares the widespread belief that kizomba came from the Zook style, and young Angolan musicians, adopting the Zook elements, created the Angolan Kizomb [2] .
Confirming her words, Sylvia Klerföhl wrote: “In the 80s of the last century, the fashion for the new Zook style came to Angola, where all the young people danced to the music of the groups Malavoi , Gazolin and Kassav ( Kassav ) who performed in the country on a triumphal tour. ” S. Klerföl used the word “kizomba” in French in the masculine gender - “ le kizomba ”.
It is important at the same time that “ Zouk ” is translated from the language of French Creoles as “party” or “festival”.
However, Nago Seck , using the word “kizomba” in the feminine language, “ la kizomba ”, believes that the kizomba born in Angola, which is called “African tango, ” is related to zooku and exists in 4 varieties by countries: Angola, Cape Verde , Guinea-Bissau and Portugal [3] .
Angolans, on the other hand, recognize only the kizomba variant of their native country. The opinion is quite justified when comparing the dance performance by the Angolans and Europeans. Cases of changing authentic dances by Europeans were encountered when Brazilian mashish and samba were imported to Europe.
| External video files | |
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| Kizomba | |
| Péch and Vanessa are given a tarrashin lesson in Madrid [4] | |
There are several styles of kizomba: Passada - the classical style, Tarrashinha ( Tarraxinha ), Cuadrinha ( Quadrinha ) or Cuadradrinha ( Quadradrinha ), and Ventoinha ( 5) .
Adebayo Oyebade wrote the following about Tarrashinha: “The partners perform the dance in closer contact, their arms are more sensual, and their movements are even slower than in the kizomba. The dancers barely move. Tarrashinha is widespread among young Angolans ” [6] . However, many Angolans perceive this dance as indecent.
Given that Angola was a Portuguese colony, and the Portuguese language is the state language in this country, many of the songs used to dance kizomba are performed in Portuguese.
Currently, it is very difficult to distinguish between musical accompaniment and dance movements of the zook and kizomba in Portuguese-speaking countries and around the world: all these styles are called kizombas. However, it is worth noting that the songs in the Zuk style are performed in French , and kizomba - in Portuguese.
Steve Middleton ( Steve Middleton ) notes that kizomba is different from salsa and other Latin American dances [7] .
Cultural Influence
The influence of the Angolan kizomba is felt not only in most Portuguese-speaking African countries, but also in Portugal itself (especially in Lisbon and its suburbs, such as Amadora or Almada). At present, kizomba is also quite popular among white people; it is danced at specialized discos. Starting from 2005-2010, kizomba is gaining popularity at salsa festivals and becomes one of the dances studied at them. Currently (2014), France and Portugal are the main distribution center of kizomba dance.
Notes
- ↑ Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa com Acordo Ortográfico. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2015. kizomba (port.) . Іnfopédia. Date of appeal April 16, 2015.
- ↑ Sylvie Clerfeulle. Angola (Fr.) . Afrisson (May 11, 2007). Date of appeal April 16, 2015.
- ↑ Nago Seck. La Kizomba (French) . Afrisson (3 juin 2012). Date of appeal April 16, 2015.
- ↑ Tarraxinha - Petchú e Vanessa Sensualdance Madrid 2013 . YouTube (December 10, 2013). Date of treatment May 13, 2015.
- ↑ O que é Kizomba (port) . Kizomba. Date of appeal April 16, 2015.
- ↑ Adebayo Oyebade. Culture and Customs of Angola . - Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 .-- P. 156. - 180 p. - ISBN 0313331472 .
- ↑ Kizomba . Salsa-Dance. Date of appeal April 16, 2015.
Sources
Links
- Kizomba basic dance instruction with videos
- Basic steps of kizomba dance with an explanation in Russian
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHfAWDuFP0M - example, demo
- 2011 RTP2 Portuguese television documentary about Angola salmon and kizomba “A Minha Banda e Eu”
- Paired Kizmoba performance example (coach Oleg Boyko)