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Lambada in Portuguese means 'strong slap',
it is more like a strong whip. The whole dance is filled with waving motion at
the bodies, and this makes a difference among all other Latin dances. Like most
other Latin dances, Lambada has a history with Brazil too. It emerged at the
time when Brazil was still a Portuguese colony. The dance was in fact evolved
from Carimbo, which was a loose, not so organized dance form, in which there
were only side movements and spins; however, it was very sensual basically
because of the hip movements.
In 1976, the first official Lambada was
recorded by Pinduca. In the early 1980s two-beat Carimbo was quite popular and
was danced mainly as a partner dance. In the same decade the Carimbo that was
fused with electronic and metallic music became known as Lambada. Lambada was
then spreading and met Forro, an older dance in Bahia, it then transformed to a
four-beat dance.
The newer form of Lambada has been danced
through 1980s and 1990s. However, the music used had been changed. Around
mid-1990s, music of Salsa, Merengue, Mambo and Zouk were all used in Lambada. Although
later the dance was also influenced by Rock and Swing, the typical Lambada hip
was still kept. The dance was never a worldwide craze, when it arrived Bahia where
summer tourism was boosting a dance style every season, Lambada could not avoid
having the same destiny and subsided a few years after 1988.
Lambada, being a sexy dance was actually
not the forbidden dance. The true forbidden dance was Maxixe. The two shared a
great deal of common figures, one of then was the head movements. Head
movements was never popular in Latin, even now at an era of Latin dances being
influenced by Jazz dance quite a lot, head movements was still rarely seen in
Latin dances in higher level of competitions. Lambada has been a pioneer in
accompanying head moves is still nice to watch, and fun to dance.
Hey, still wonder what Lambada is, check this movie out- The Forbidden Dance is Lambada.
Learn more about the other dance styles? Check here.
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Hey, still wonder what Lambada is, check this movie out- The Forbidden Dance is Lambada.
Learn more about the other dance styles? Check here.
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