A Kuduro dance party in the streets of Paris. It features a one-legged dancer, who is a celebrity in Angola, Cap-Vert and Portugal (the 3 countries where kuduro is played). the Kuduro style is also related to a choreography. There's plenty of them and the mc's are dropping and shouting names of dance moves to the crowd, just like they do in Jamaica or during block parties. You'll see also a lot of dance competition circle in the videos on the net and find DVDs to learn how to dance kuduro. Again, this is a great example about how musics and dances from West Africa, Caribbean Islands and black north America are intricated. Not only in the music itself, but also in the way it's lived and theatrically expressed.
The most impressive move in my opinion is the one when they jump, do a flip and crash on their back intentionally. They're also weird figures where they act like mentally disabled or physically handicapped people, which almost bring the dance to some kind of comedy act (like also when they act like stereotyped gay). This specific dance moves, and even more evidently the one-legged man in this two videos, are most probably showing and expressing the results of almost 30 years of civil war, which brought Angola to be one of the poorest country in Africa.
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