Female Dancers of Rumba Columbia?

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achilles007

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Anyone have any clips or know of any women who dance Rumba Columbia? Or-- at the very least-- a male who can dance it a lot more feminine and sensual?

There are good examples of males who can dance Yambu and Guaguanco extremely sensual and gracefully feminine... but very very rare is it to find this same sensuality in Columbia-- even by the very same "sensual" dancers themselves.

Columbia appears to be male-only with lots of rigid-male, excitatory, aggressive posturing. I would love to see more women dancing this, incorporating in much more hip movement-- basically a radical, new female and sensual interpretation of this version of Rumba.

Anyone have any hinters/tips/advice they can point me in the direction of?
 
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I know Azzey has to have some excellent ideas.

Columbia is the perfect dance to explore the range of different body movements, without having to concentrate on another person. Just you and the rhythm.... the best type of body movement experience one could ever wish for...

And the fact that Columbia is one that frequently borrows from other dance genres: timba, salsa, break-dance, jazz, abakua... makes the potential for this dance all the more ground-breaking...

i just wish there was a way to transplant the hip movement(s) of Guaguanco into Columbia... to aid in both the sensual aesthetic and competitive spirit of the dance.
 
achilles007 said:
Anyone have any clips or know of any women who dance Rumba Columbia? Or-- at the very least-- a male who can dance it a lot more feminine and sensual?

There are good examples of males who can dance Yambu and Guaguanco extremely sensual and gracefully feminine... but very very rare is it to find this same sensuality in Columbia-- even by the very same "sensual" dancers themselves.

Columbia appears to be male-only with lots of rigid-male, excitatory, aggressive posturing. I would love to see more women dancing this, incorporating in much more hip movement-- basically a radical, new female and sensual interpretation of this version of Rumba.

Anyone have any hinters/tips/advice they can point me in the direction of?
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Well traditionally speaking, as I'm sure you know, columbia is a men's dance and women have not danced it. There are more and more women doing it, but since the idea from the beginning has been that it is a dance where men show off and challenge one another, of course it has been very masculine. I don't know how much the entry of women into columbia may be creating a "female" version of columbia.
 
OK here a woman dances and then gets sidelined. As a friend of mine commend

"great seeing the drama and etiquette in this clip of Rumba Columbia...how to request permission to get on the floor....and to see Isnavi getting so angry and frustrated as she is sidelined at the end..."
 
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Thanks for this.

Which of the female orishas are you seeing in this dance, if you dont mind me asking?
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Really just Yemayá, but to ne honest I don't know everything that Ochún and Oyá do so there could be some of thir stuff in tehre. But I'm thinking of Yemayá here. I notice that when men dance columbia they also often bring in orishas or maybe palo as well.

Yemayá

Ochún

Oyá (this has ogún too)
 
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