domingo, 22 de novembro de 2009

Belly Dance


The belly dance is a dance originally committed in various parts of the Middle East and South Asia. Of primitive origin, dated between 7000 and 5000 BC, its allied movements to music and sinuous like a snake, were recorded in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia, India, Persia and Greece, and were intended to prepare women through religious rites dedicated to the goddesses, to become mothers. Due to the Arab invasion, the dance spread around the world. The term belly dance originated in France in 1893. In the East is known by the Arabic name raqs sharqi (رقص شرقي literally "oriental dance") or raqs baladi (رقص بلدي literally "dance of the country," and, by extension, "folk dance"), or the term Turkish çiftetelli (or τσιφτετέλι in Greek).

It consists of a series of movements vibration, impact, ripples and turns involving the body as a whole. Currently won sensual exotic aspects, being excluded from some Arab countries of conservative attitude.

segunda-feira, 16 de novembro de 2009

Kizomba

Kizomba is a musical sort and of originary dance of Angola. One is about a fusing of semba with zouk. In Portugal the word “kizomba” is used for any type of music derived from zouk, exactly that it is not of Angolan origin.

Musical structure:


The Kizombas normally is marked by a strong stroke given by serious drum as the Deaf person (drum), folloied for a melody given for a chimbal. In the introduction and during the Bridge (music), the strong stroke is many times omitted, being only the melody given for the chimbal and the other instruments of the battery (musical instrument).

segunda-feira, 9 de novembro de 2009

Cha-Cha-Chá


Chachachá is a Latin American style of dance derived from rumba, mambo and danzon Cuban. It corresponds to the musical style of same name, introduced for the composer and Cuban violinist Enrique Jorrín.

In the hall dance popularly it is called by Cha-Cha.

Inhaled in the sound of the feet of the dancers when dragging them for the soil, this style finished becoming independent, with proper characteristics of music and dances.

It was become popular in the world with the formations of the Big Bands, where it clearly had predominance of blow instruments.

Chachachá was born originally in Havana in years 40.


segunda-feira, 2 de novembro de 2009

Hip Hop


Hip hop is a cultural movement initiate in the end of the decade of 1970 in the United States as form of reaction to the social conflicts and the violence suffered for the favored classrooms less of the urban society.

It is a species of culture of the streets, a movement of space claim and voice of the peripheries, translated in the aggressive letters, the strong and intense rhythm and the images grafithes for the walls of the cities.

Hip hop as cultural movement is composed for four main artistic manifestations: MCing, that livens up the party with its rhymes improvised, the instrumentation of the DJs, the dance of breakdance and the painting of the graphite.

Having started in Bronx, the culture hip hop emerged quickly for the world all.

Music hip hop does not have to be confused with rap (rhythm and poetry), therefore this has divergent structure of music hip hop in some points, although to have points in common. They exist rappers that they do not touch hip hop, as Eminem and MC's, as well as exist musicians of hip hop that they do not make rap.

The awarding of American MTV, the Video Music Awards, for example, counts on two distinct categories: one for better clip of rap and another one for better clip of hip hop.