How do you dance danza kuduro
CopperKnob - Danza Kuduro - José Miguel Belloque Vane (NL) & Andres Torti (NL)
32 count Intro.
Walk forward R L R L,waving both arms R L R L. Rolling vine right touch & clap
1,2,3,4Walk forward Rf, Lf, Rf, Lf. whilst waving both arms R,L,R,L. (palms facing forward)
5-6making a ¼ turn right step forward on Rf ,making a ½ turn right step back on Lf
7-8making a ¼ turn right step Rf to side, leaning to right point Lf to side & clap hands to right.
Rolling vine left into chasse, Jazzbox ¼ turn right
1-2making a ¼ turn left step forward on Lf,making a ½ turn left step back on Rf.
3&4making a ¼ turn left step Lf to side, close Rf to Lf, step Lf to side.
5,6,7,8cross Rf over Lf, step back on Lf, make ¼ R stepping forward on right, step slightly forward on Lf.
Step pivot ¼ left, step pivot ½ left, Side cross side, heel touch L.
1,2,3,4Step forward on Rf pivot ¼ turn left, step forward on Rf pivot ½ turn left,
5,6,7,8Step Rf to right, cross Lf over Rf, step Rf to right, touch left heel diagonally forward left.
Rock left & right with shimmys, Rolling vine left with touch.
1,2,3,4Shimmy shoulders and rock over 2 counts onto Lf, Shimmy shoulders and rock over 2 counts onto Rf.
5-6making a ¼ turn left step forward on Lf, making a ½ turn left step back on Rf.
7-8making a ¼ turn left step Lf to side, touch Rf next to Lf.
Shuffle forward on right pivot ½ turn right, Shuffle forward on left pivot ½ turn left
1&2, 3-4Step forward on Rf, close Lf to Rf, step forward on Rf.
Step forward Lf pivot ½ turn right.
5&6, 7-8Step forward on Lf, close Rf to Lf, step forward on Lf. Step forward Rf pivot ½ turn left.
Out out ¼ turn right, out, x2
1,2,3,4step Rf slightly fwd & out, step Lf out, making a ¼ turn right step Rf to side, step Lf out.
5,6,7,8step Rf slightly fwd & out, step Lf out, making a ¼ turn right step Rf to side, step Lf out.
Skate right left, shuffle to right diagonal, skate left right, shuffle to left diagonal
1-2,3&4Skate Rf, Lf, Step forward on Rf, close Lf to Rf, step forward on Rf.
5-6,7&8Skate Lf, Rf, Step forward on Lf, close Rf to Lf, step forward on Lf.
Step, pivot ½ left, 2 walks forward right left, Step, pivot ½ left x2.
1,2,3,4step forward on Rf pivot ½ turn left, Walk forward Rf Lf,
5,6,7,8step forward on Rf pivot ½ turn left, step forward on Rf pivot ½ turn left.
TAG: one 4 count tag after wall 5, just pose for 4 counts & start again.
The dance finishes on count 64 facing front, pose for a big finish
'Kuduro,' The Dance That Keeps Angola Going : The Record : NPR
'Kuduro,' The Dance That Keeps Angola Going : The Record An exuberant, fast-paced electronic dance music born during a civil war has started traveling from its southwestern African home to dance floors around the globe. Some international stars have embraced the style, but its leading ambassador is a son of the Angolan head of state.
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'Kuduro,' The Dance That Keeps Angola Going
Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute.
It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola. A group called Os Kuduristas — "the kuduro ones" — has been bringing kuduro to clubs and spaces across the globe, including Paris, Amsterdam and, most recently, New York and Washington, D.C. But their story is complicated.
Singer M.I.A. has worked with a kuduro-inspired crew. And reggaeton star Don Omar had an international hit with Lucenzo with a song called "Kuduro Danza."
So what exactly is kuduro? Choreographer Manuel Kanza, who goes by his last name and who has been traveling the world with Os Kuduristas, says it's all about the dance. "It's inspired by so many things around our environment, our world," Kanza says. "Anything can make a kuduro move. For example, we also imitate the movement of a frog, the movement of animals, the marching of soldiers. Everything can make a movement."
It's also music of the streets that spreads virally, says Marissa Moorman, a professor of African history at Indiana University who specializes in this style.
"It's sort of everywhere. It's played very widely on what are called candongueiros, which are these collective taxis, essentially, which are maybe 12- or 15-seater vans. It's the most common form of transportation [in the capital Luanda]," she says. "Even though the radio station will play some kuduro, most kuduro is produced in studios in the musseques, which are shantytowns. So most artists will produce in the museq studios and then hand out copies of their CDs to candongueiro drivers and get them to play it in order to popularize it and promote it."
Kuduro is party music, the kind you'd find in clubs anywhere in the world. But it has a deeper meaning in Angola, a country still scarred by a 22-year civil war that just ended only a decade ago.
"You know, when kuduro started, we were a country at war, and our young people and even our older generation was trying to make their kids, children, nieces and nephews and neighbors, etc.
, feel comfortable and try to transmit, however possible, a sense of normalcy," says a producer and musician who goes by the name of Coréon Dú. He put the Os Kuduristas project together to introduce the music to audiences beyond Angola. "Kuduro was more a celebration of being alive," he adds, "because we did have our family members were in the army, or lost a leg in a land mine, or something like that, but we wanted to focus on the positive."
Os Kuduristas YouTube
Coréon Dú might well want to focus on the positive. His real name is Jose Eduardo Paulino dos Santos. It's one of the most famous last names in Africa. He's the son of Angola's president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been in power for 32 years.
"I don't focus on that," says Coréon Dú, "and, very honestly, it has no impact.
It seems like I came from a privileged background, but that's not really the case."
He'd like to be known best as a musician and producer. But a lot of what goes on in Angola is a family affair: Coréon Dú produces much of the programming that runs on TPA 2, the television channel run by his sister. Another brother runs a $5 billion sovereign wealth fund on behalf of the nation.
Angola is the second-largest oil producer in Africa and one of the world's biggest diamond producers; rent on a two-bedroom luxury apartment in Luanda averages $7,000 per month. Yet 80 percent of people living in Luanda live in shantytowns. And most earn less than $2 a day.
Professor Moorman says average Angolans are no better off today than they were 10 years ago. She adds that kuduro reflects what Angolans have endured.
"You can't separate its beginnings from politics," Moorman says, "from this history of the civil war and the ways in which the violence of that war was played out very particularly on the bodies of young men, right? Young men were recruited both by the state and by the rebel forces to fight in the war.
I think it's not actually a story of victimization. It's a story of triumph over bone-crushing conditions, essentially."
Choreographer Kanza says kuduro dance transforms these sorrows into something else. "What we do is like trying to have fun out of something that is really serious," he observes. "For example, in the time of war, people would imitate the crippled man walking — so, taking that movement of the crippled person into a movement of dance. Like coming from the dead!"
Os Kuduristas YouTube
As a result of the civil war, the median age in Angola is now less than 18 years old — and producer Coréon Dú says those young people are kuduro's main audience.
"Kuduro really is, I would say, the energy of this specific generation, the generation that was born I'd say especially between the mid- to late 1980s and right now," he asserts.
"And it's still that sort of really vibrant energy that really reflects the current Angola."
Coréon Dú's love for kuduro seems genuine enough, but you can't help but wonder how much of his recent tour helps the government rebrand itself for international consumption — and how much of his support for the music helps keep a very young Angola loyal to his father.
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Don Omar - Danza Kuduro Lyrics SongMeanings
Hands up!
Cintura sola,
Show your waist,
Da media vuelta,
Turn around,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
No te canses ahora,
And don't think to be tired now,
Que esto sólo empieza.
After all, this is only the beginning.
Mueve la cabeza,
Shake your head,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
Bailando me robo la atencion
Dancing, she captured my attention
Desde el momento en que la vi (let's go!)
From the moment I saw her.
(Go!)
Una nena latina muy fina (go go go!)
Gorgeous Latino girl (come on, come on, come on!),
De esas que me gustan a mi.
Just the kind I like.
Hay es puro veneno,
She is pure poison,
Cuando lo mueve ella es
When she moves,
Como un trueno va
She is like an explosion.
Ganandome con su bella danza.
Charms me with her beautiful dance.
Sin jugar yo le dije asi.
So let's get out of here as soon as possible.
Nadie en la pista se ve cansao
Nobody on the dance floor is tired,
Lleno de energia acelerao.
Everyone is full of stupid energy.
Kuduro, morena, conmigo te pegas
Dark-skinned girl, you dance Kuduro with me
First one, then the other.
[2x:]
[2x:]
La mano arriba!
Hands up!
Cintura sola,
Show your waist,
Da media vuelta,
Turn around,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
No te canses ahora,
And don't think to be tired now,
Que esto sólo empieza.
After all, this is only the beginning.
Mueve la cabeza,
Shake your head,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Vem para quebrar kuduro,
Let's break into this dance,
vamos dançar kuduro!
Let's dance kuduro!
Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi...
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... blonde,
vem balançar kuduro
Dance kuduro!
Oi, oi, oi...
Oh, oh, oh...
Quero darte un bezo,
I want to kiss you.
Feel your sweetness.
Ven conmigo a danzar!
Come dance with me!
Sentir o tu curpo
I want to hug your body
Y abrazar de nuvo.
Again and again.
Quero que tu vayas a danzar.
I want you to dance.
Ella Conoce Una Danza
She knows the dance,
Que Yo No Conozco,
of which I do not know,
Pero Como Quiera
But, like she,
Quiero Bailarla,
I want to dance him
Caminando en la arena
On the sand
Por la playa serena.
This quiet beach.
Arrio todo para conquistarla,
I will do everything to win her,
Que se olvide la pena.
So that she forgets all her worries.
Mami, deja el estres,
Baby, relax,
Que donde baila uno
Because where one dances,
Pueden bailar tres,
Three can dance,
Hasta diez.
And even ten,
Que te crees?
Do you agree?
Bailemos kuduro al derecho, al reves,
Dancing kuduro, right and back,
Rapido, lento,
Slow and fast,
Suave tambien duro.
Smooth and sharp.
Bailemos kuduro
You and I in the dark
Tu y yo en lo obscure.
We dance kuduro.
Y dices lento, lento.
You whisper something softly.
Rapido seguro
Fast and confident
Bailemos kuduro
You and me in the dark
Tu y yo en lo obscuro.
We dance kuduro.
Mama!
Mom!
[2x:]
[2x:]
La mano arriba!
Hands up!
Cintura sola,
Show your waist,
Da media vuelta,
Turn around,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
No te canses ahora,
And don't think to be tired now,
Que esto sólo empieza.
After all, this is only the beginning.
Mueve la cabeza,
Shake your head,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
El rey
King,
Danza kuduro
Dance kuduro!
Ya aqui estan
Only here
Lo los mas duros
The most persistent.
Insuperable
Outstanding!
Inigualable
Unique!
Como yo insoportable
Tireless, like myself!
* - OST Fast Five (Fast and Furious 5 soundtrack)
** Kuduro is a fiery rhythmic dance that originated in the 1980s in Angola.
Don Omar
[2x:]
[2x:]
La mano arriba!
Hands up!
Cintura sola,
Show your waist,
Da media vuelta,
Turn around,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
No te canses ahora,
And don't think to be tired now,
Que esto sólo empieza.
After all, this is only the beginning.
Mueve la cabeza,
Shake your head,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
Bailando me robo la atencion
Dancing, she captured my attention
Desde el momento en que la vi (let's go!)
From the moment I saw her.
(Go!)
Una nena latina muy fina (go go go!)
Gorgeous Latino girl (come on, come on, come on!),
De esas que me gustan a mi.
Just the kind I like.
Hay es puro veneno,
She is pure poison,
Cuando lo mueve ella es
When she moves,
Como un trueno va
She is like an explosion.
Ganandome con su bella danza.
Charms me with her beautiful dance.
Sin jugar yo le dije asi:
I told her so, not jokingly:
Peligro mucho cuidao,
It's dangerous here,
Por que salimos de aqui zafao.
So let's get out of here as soon as possible.
Nadie en la pista se ve cansao
Nobody on the dance floor is tired,
Lleno de energia acelerao.
Everyone is full of stupid energy.
Kuduro, morena, conmigo te pegas0003
One way, then the other,
De lao a lao.
First one, then the other.
[2x:]
[2x:]
La mano arriba!
Hands up!
Cintura sola,
Show your waist,
Da media vuelta,
Turn around,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
No te canses ahora,
And don't think to be tired now,
Que esto sólo empieza.
After all, this is only the beginning.
Mueve la cabeza,
Shake your head,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Vem para quebrar kuduro,
Let's break into this dance,
vamos dançar kuduro!
Let's dance kuduro!
Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi...
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... blonde
vem balançar kuduro
Dance kuduro!
Oi, oi, oi...
Oh, oh, oh...
Quero darte un bezo,
I want to kiss you.
Feel your sweetness.
Ven conmigo a danzar!
Come dance with me!
Sentir o tu curpo
I want to hug your body
Y abrazar de nuvo.
Again and again.
Quero que tu vayas a danzar.
I want you to dance.
Ella Conoce Una Danza
She knows the dance,
Que Yo No Conozco,
of which I do not know,
Pero Como Quiera
But, like she,
Quiero Bailarla,
I want to dance him
Caminando en la arena
On the sand
Por la playa serena.
This quiet beach.
Arrio todo para conquistarla,
I will do everything to win her,
Que se olvide la pena.
So that she forgets about all her worries.
Mami, deja el estres,
Baby, relax,
Que donde baila uno
Because where one dances,
Pueden bailar tres,
And even ten,
Que te crees?
Do you agree?
Bailemos kuduro al derecho, al reves,
Dancing Kuduro, right and back,
Rapido, lento,
Slow and fast,
Suave tambien duro.
Smooth and sharp.
Bailemos kuduro
You and I in the dark
Tu y yo en lo obscure.
We dance kuduro.
Y dices lento, lento.
You whisper something softly.
Rapido seguro
Fast and confident
Bailemos kuduro
We are with you in the dark
Tu y yo en lo obscuro.
We dance kuduro.
Mama!
Mom!
[2x:]
[2x:]
La mano arriba!
Hands up!
Cintura sola,
Show your waist,
Da media vuelta,
Turn around,
Danza kuduro!
Dance kuduro!
No te canses ahora,
And don't think to be tired now,
Que esto sólo empieza.
