How to dance the basic steps of samba? What should I pay attention to?

Samba's unique foot bounce action is produced by the knee and ankle of the center of gravity bending and straightening each other. The time of each flexion and extension is l/2 beat, and the flexion angle varies with the different dance steps, sometimes "slightly" and sometimes "not".

Another difficult movement is oblique stabbing of pelvis and buttocks. Without these two movements, samba is difficult to show. The movements of samba must reflect a cheerful atmosphere, and the partners surround each other like a parade and interact with the audience while moving or dancing at a fixed point.

Pay attention to the moderate relaxation and center of gravity of muscles. Physical and psychological stress can't make the lively and enthusiastic samba dance play well.

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Historical evolution:

Samba originated in Africa. The word "samba" is said to have evolved from the word "samba" of Kimbandu, the second largest Angolan tribe in Africa. "Samba" is a passionate belly dance.

As the name implies, this dance is characterized by shaking the abdomen and buttocks up and down. This is the most popular dance movement in Angola. Later, with the rise of the slave trade, it began to spread abroad. From the 1930s of 16 to the middle of 19, Portuguese colonists sold120,000 slaves to Brazil from Angola and other parts of Africa.

When slaves were loaded into cabins and transported to the newly discovered Latin American continent, white slave traders were worried that the journey would be long, the slaves would stay in the cabins for dozens of days, and their legs and feet would not be flexible after landing, so they could not sell at a good price.

So, every day, they drove the slaves crowded in the cabin to the deck, accompanied by beating barrels and iron pots, and let them dance a samba to exercise their muscles. In this way, the colonists who wanted to enhance the competitiveness of this special commodity inadvertently brought this dance popular in Africa to Latin America.

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