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azana said:
I danced two in a row with a lead last night who then threatened to take me to the sensual bachata room. It was getting dicey there for a while...
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After just 2 dances!? Usually takes me 5 or more before I just take them into the Bachata Sensual room.
 
1derpalm said:
The thumbnail says Kompa. Kompa music most certainly is better than bachata sensual.

From what I've gathered, Kompa is a predecessor of Zouk (Caribbean aka real actual Zouk).
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Correct.

Kompa (correct Caribbean spelling is konpa) is a music and dance style from Haiti. Personally I'm not a fan of the dance (though the music can be fun to chill out to), but this is what people dance a lot in Haiti/the Caribbean so it's a much more authentic dance than even salsa.

So congrats @TikiTaka @Bostontraitor @Smejmoon you just ignorantly insulted a whole Caribbean culture in your failed attempt to make fun of kizomba, do you feel better now..?
 
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Bostontraitor said:
I might just call Tarraxo or the kizomba style in the video I just quoted, dry humping with beats.

update:
In both Angola and Cape Verde, local African dances and music styles mixed with the Zouk. In fact, the Caribbean Zouk, the Haitian Kompa and the Semba are all components of what we now know as Kizomba.

now we know.
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Tarraxo has nothing to do with konpa. Konpa is a Caribbean dance focused on hip movement, tarraxo is about whole body movement -- the kind of movement salseros can only dream about :p

Gotta love it when ignorant salseros display their ignorance in attempting to put down a dance they know nothing about :rofl:
 
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*This* is what tarraxo is like -- these are the winners of the 2022 Olympiads of Kizomba in the tarraxo category -- these guys have more body movement in a few seconds of dancing than most salseros will in their entire lifetime :D


(I set the video to start after they do the "battle tricks" in the beginning and start dancing, since this is a dance battle between two couples, and we have seen above that salseros are very easily confused when watching non-salsa dance videos :p -- but the battle tricks are fun so if you want to see those you can start at the beginning)
 
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Smejmoon said:
Since we were doing this kind of dancing in 7th grade, I assume there is a massive cultural appropriation committed by whole Caribbean culture. :D They are taking dry-humping away from us!
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I highly, highly, highly doubt you or your friends had that kind of hip movement in 7th grade :p (or now, but that's besides the point)

And if you actually equate konpa with dry humping...I rest my case.
 
Sabrosura said:
Correct.

Kompa (correct Caribbean spelling is konpa) is a music and dance style from Haiti. Personally I'm not a fan of the dance (though the music can be fun to chill out to), but this is what people dance a lot in Haiti/the Caribbean so it's a much more authentic dance than even salsa.

So congrats @TikiTaka @Bostontraitor @Smejmoon you just ignorantly insulted a whole Caribbean culture in your failed attempt to make fun of kizomba, do you feel better now..?
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So do you feel sorry for @Bostontraitor or not? :P
 
People are confused about Tarraxo (partly) because there was a misunderstanding with the name. It was called Tarraxo by a French guy who unfortunately wasn't aware that the word had already a meaning in Portuguese, hence some confusion for Lusophones people.
 
Sabrosura said:
Correct.

Kompa (correct Caribbean spelling is konpa) is a music and dance style from Haiti. Personally I'm not a fan of the dance (though the music can be fun to chill out to), but this is what people dance a lot in Haiti/the Caribbean so it's a much more authentic dance than even salsa.

So congrats @TikiTaka @Bostontraitor @Smejmoon you just ignorantly insulted a whole Caribbean culture in your failed attempt to make fun of kizomba, do you feel better now..?
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I know the dance is simple but I quite like it. I went to a Haitian festival in Montreal and just enjoyed the chill atmosphere. A lot of people doing variations on the basic step, even solo. I tried and realized my ground still was terrible.
Where we will splinter is I really like Kompa music and dislike Modern Kizomba (even with the superficial similarities). I would like to learn it but a 9 hour drive is my closest opportunity, and being a white anglo dude will make it much much harder lol.
 
1derpalm said:
I know the dance is simple but I quite like it. I went to a Haitian festival in Montreal and just enjoyed the chill atmosphere. A lot of people doing variations on the basic step, even solo. I tried and realized my ground still was terrible.
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In my opinion the best time to listen to konpa is when you're feeling romantic with someone while doing some nice hot dancing at home ;) Konpa music can really turn up the heat in such moments...
I accidentally discovered this while dancing to a sultry kizomba mix in private and there was some konpa in there. Things were already hot but the konpa really turned up the heat...
 
Offbeat said:
Last night was very crowded. Cherry in the top, in one song I got hit from three different sides in one song and my partner almost twice! The fourth side had two good leads so that was the only safe one. The floor craft is atrocious and very few actually take any steps according to the music.
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That was suppose to say hit six times in a single song from three sides. This is despite avoiding those three or four couples knowing they were being careless.
 
Offbeat said:
That was suppose to say hit six times in a single song from three sides. This is despite avoiding those three or four couples knowing they were being careless.
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That sounds... like a nightmare. I've never danced in Europe but based on this type of report and all those YouTube videos with the big swinging arms and people crashing into each other, it really doesn't sound enticing.
 
noobster said:
That sounds... like a nightmare. I've never danced in Europe but based on this type of report and all those YouTube videos with the big swinging arms and people crashing into each other, it really doesn't sound enticing.
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It's not like that in Europe, I think that Magic was just super crowded. It's gotten very popular and it looks like it can't handle it. I saw videos that at the end of the night, 7 am, looked like other festivals are like at their peak times.
 
Offbeat said:
That was suppose to say hit six times in a single song from three sides. This is despite avoiding those three or four couples knowing they were being careless.
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I was just talking to a friend who was there (Marc from Singapore, if you know him) and he said it was manageable, he loved it.

So what's your overall assessment of the festival?
 
Sabrosura said:
In my opinion the best time to listen to konpa is when you're feeling romantic with someone while doing some nice hot dancing at home ;) Konpa music can really turn up the heat in such moments...
I accidentally discovered this while dancing to a sultry kizomba mix in private and there was some konpa in there. Things were already hot but the konpa really turned up the heat...
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I've only had 1 full fledged (accidental and beyond controlable.. don't wear loose dress pants) bachoner and it was as much or more about the person than the dance. In my clubbing days girls would grind up against me and literally do what would land a dude in prison, and you would think I'm dead inside or have o nerve endings. When I was feeling funky, music and dance always went ahead of amorous feelings.
Even now, since ei listen to a lot of jazz it distracts me in the act. I'll be thinking "Did they just play a iv instead of a IV and replace the V7 with a II#11#9? Nice! Maybe ill replace my IVM7 with a iv b11b9."
 
1derpalm said:
Even now, since ei listen to a lot of jazz it distracts me in the act. I'll be thinking "Did they just play a iv instead of a IV and replace the V7 with a II#11#9? Nice! Maybe ill replace my IVM7 with a iv b11b9."
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I think that's why konpa works so well, it's just that steamy simple rhythm, no complexity or anything, just...heat :P Boring as hell to me in a dance party but apparently works like magic in other more private contexts :D
 
Bostontraitor said:
Beat it man, you are just jelly that I can dance like this and you can’t.:p


I got more body movement than all you salsa bullshitters.:cool:
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The average guy/girl at an African or Latin American party has better movement than any SBK dancers. Most SBK dancers are in it for the partner aspect of it (e.g., connection) but do not actually have good dancing skills.
 
1derpalm said:
Even now, since ei listen to a lot of jazz it distracts me in the act. I'll be thinking "Did they just play a iv instead of a IV and replace the V7 with a II#11#9? Nice! Maybe ill replace my IVM7 with a iv b11b9."
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Can I count it off?
One, two, three, four! :dancingbanana:
 
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