(Felicien & Isabelle @Feeling Kizomba Festival, 2015 YouTube)
Kizomba Dancing Goes Viral
Headline news for culture, entertainment & arts news: Kizomba Dancing Goes Viral in Latin dance clubs worldwide and recently in the United States too. In fact, Kizomba dancing has been popular in Africa, Portugal and many other European countries for five years and is now skyrocketing in popularity in the United States. Dancers all over the west are asking, "What is the kizomba?"
(Felicien & Isabelle kizomba show @ Kizomba Feeling 2015)
What is the kizomba?
The Kizomba dance is a sensual dance that originated in Luanda, Angola in West Africa in the 1980's evolving from an older dance called "semba." Kizomba songs are often sung in Portuguese, which is one reason that it became so popular in Lusophone countries that were Portuguese colonized by Portugal like Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, East Timor and Macau (Portuguese speaking countries) first.
(Fernanda Andrea & Manuele Poggia Kizomba "Don't You Know")
In the last five years, the kizomba has spread all over West Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. There are kizomba festivals this year (2015) in Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, United Kingdom, Croatia, Greece, Denmark, Malta, Lebanon, Italy, Portugal, France, India, Mexico, South Africa, Slovenia, Hong Kong, Belarus, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Serbia, Egypt and the United States.
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About the Author
Pattie Wells
hails from San Diego, California where she writes article and video blogs for
her world dance resource website at DanceTime.com.
Also, Pattie is working on several writing projects including her new website
at PattieWells.com, a novel in linked
stories and a poetry manuscript titled Fire In Rain. In addition, she continues to teach a limited
number of private dance
lessons in San Diego including dance lessons
for weddings.
