African dance
African dance refers mainly to the dance of Sub-Saharan Africa, and more appropriately African dances because of the many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with Sub-Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm. African dance utilizes the concept of polyrhythm as well as total body articulation.
Dances teach social patterns and values and help people work, mature, praise or criticize members of the community while celebrating festivals and funerals, competing, reciting history, proverbs and poetry; and to encounter gods. African dances are largely participatory, with spectators being part of the performance. With the exception of some spiritual, religious or initiation dances, there are traditionally no barriers between dancers and onlookers. Even ritual dances often have a time when spectators participate.
Characteristics
There are no singular definitions of African dance: Africa, a continent three times the size of the United States, is ethnically and culturally the most diverse on the planet. Though similar themes may be found throughout dances across the many countries and landscapes, each has its own history, language, song, background, and purpose and cannot be translated to another dance of the same culture much less another dance from somewhere else on the continent.
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by Hadouken!
Dance Lesson
by: Hadouken!OK, yeah it's Hadouken!
It's our dance lesson
We keep that movin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
We keep that movin'
We keep that movin'
Now work it, work it, work it, work it, work it, work
it, work it, shake it
Move it, yeah move that ass
Move, move, move, move that ass
Shake it, shake it, work it
Yeah, yeah, you've gotta work it
You've gotta shake your back
Don't have to look hard, you're not a gangsta
You live with your mum and you work in Asda
So what you gotta start a fight
Can you have one dance on a Saturday night?
I know that, it's cool to be hard and hard to be cool
Just like at school
When you're out with the lads don't act like a tool
Well you have to move in your own way
Don't worry what they say
loosen up and do the cliché
Now work it, work it, work it, work it, work it, work
it, work it, shake it
Move it, yeah move that ass
Move, move, move, move that ass
Shake it, shake it, work it
Yeah, yeah, you've gotta work it
You've gotta shake your back
You've gotta work it
Well you have to move in your own way
Don't worry what they say
loosen and do the cliché
Do the cliché, hey
Go on the dance, yes please
Get on the dancefloor, don't freeze
Shake your booty, move those knees
Get down to the rythm of the 80s cheese
Don't have to look hard, you're not a gangsta
You live with your mum and you work in Asda
So what you gotta start a fight
Can you have one dance on a Saturday night?
I know that, it's cool to be hard and hard to be cool
Just like at school
When you're out with the lads don't act like a tool
Well you have to move in your own way
Don't worry what they say
loosen up and do the cliché
Do the cliché, hey
Now work it, work it, work it, work it, work it, work
it, work it, shake it
Move it, yeah move that ass
Move, move, move, move that ass
Shake it, shake it, work it
Yeah, yeah, you've gotta work it
You've gotta shake your back
We keep that movin'
Now work it, work it, work it, work it, work it, work
it, work it, shake it
Move it, yeah move that ass
Move, move, move, move that ass
Shake it, shake it, work it
Yeah, yeah, you've gotta work it
You've gotta shake your back
We keep that movin'
You gotta work it
We keep that movin'
We keep that movin'
We keep that movin'
We keep that movin'