Lambada
Lambada is a couple dance that originated in Brazil . It is a combination of the merengue and carimbó dances .
history
The dance was best known through the band Kaoma 's hit " Lambada " of the same name , which was released in Paris in June 1989 and then spread throughout Europe. The song was a Portuguese-language plagiarism of a song by the Bolivian group Los Kjarkas entitled Llorando se fue from 1981, but the new dance experienced a life of its own after the hit by Kaoma. The music video published at the same time was shot on Cocos Beach in Trancoso (Bahia) , where the dance first became popular. This sparked a brief boom in dance schools, but it flattened out as quickly as it came. This was followed by the film "Lambada - the Forbidden Dance", which was shot in 1990. Laura Harring played the main female role . By the way was through the dance or the performances Kaomas Thong in Europe made socially acceptable.
Kaoma was replaced in Brazil by the "Rei da Lambada" Beto Barbosa , which became popular in the 80s with hits like "Adocica", "Preta", "Paramaribo" and "Diz prá mim". After 1994, when the Lambada boom had already flattened out again, the majority of Brazilians danced to Zouk . The dance style changed so that the dancers no longer called their dance style just Lambada, but also Lambada / Zouk, Lambazouk or Zouk Brazilian Style. This dance consists of soft, flowing movements with many body rolls (including barrels, waves etc.), head rolls (bamboleo) and cambrés for the woman. The dance steps are based on the "slow quick quick" of the music.
Nowadays, different styles have already developed within the Lambada / Zouk, although there are still arguments about the naming. Two styles stand out: the one from Rio de Janeiro and the one from Porto Seguro . The dance style of Rio de Janeiro is characterized by deep cambrés and tables. The fast chicotes (the woman's head is thrown backwards; at least that's how it looks to the audience) and bonecas (the woman's head moves in a three-dimensional figure eight) are done in the style of Porto Seguro. In all these movements, it is important to note that the chest is the supporting element of the head. This dance is not stationary, but dynamic, which benefits the implementation of different musical styles.
Today Lambada / Zouk is danced in: Brazil , Argentina , the USA ( but prohibited in Utah ), the United Kingdom , the Netherlands , Spain , Portugal , Switzerland , Germany , Japan and Australia . In the meantime, the common melody, like many others, is often used for chants in football stadiums. Today, in the Brazilian state is Bahia the lambada similar rhythm often Arrocha played.
technology
The technique and the timing of the dance to the music are simple in the description, but difficult to perform for a dancer who has not already dealt with the technique of other Latin American dances (body isolation in three "blocks"; different types of hip movements): a lateral hip swing without rotation component (on the dance floor level), but with body lifting and lowering on every beat with additional foot lifting on every third shift in weight to the quick-quick-slow rhythm; A reactive external rotation (with extension) of the free leg takes place on the slow. So it is an increase (the additional foot lift) of the merengue basic technique: The hip movement precedes the step, does not follow it (as in other Latin American dances). Clock is the usual 4/4 clock, fast, up to 50 TPM .
The hip movements must be completely isolated and must not show up in the shoulder (upper block). In contrast to merengue, however, the point around which the hip is swung is higher, in the area of the middle block. The hip movement is weakened and also visible in the middle block (due to the delay in the form of an S). There is no distinction between step preparation and weight transfer; the steps are, as it were, dropped under the center of gravity, which is only slightly moving due to the hip movement.
The dance is therefore stationary, with the couple rotating slightly together; the dance posture is tight, contact should be maintained over the entire upper body, the legs are staggered and crossed. With this close posture, the gentleman grasps the lady deeply (hips). Figures are often two-handed turns of the lady above the head.
A typical figure in the dance posture is a semicircular rotation of the upper body of the lady from the hips away from the gentleman and counterbalanced by him in the lower knee position and the torso leaning back; Executed as low as possible so that the woman's upper body is horizontal in the middle of the movement.
Lambada in the case law
In 1990 the labor court in Bocholt ruled that an employer should not bring an employee close to prostitution if she had danced lambada at a company party. According to the court, the dance was not immoral; it had been shown “in many cases in the afternoon program on public television - to be distinguished from the private media ”. The shipping company from Gronau was sentenced to pay the woman wages and compensation for pain and suffering.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Liffers: Erotic reference In: The time of July 13, 1990