Dance refers to a styled and patterned bodily motion(s) which is normally carried out to music. Dance should serve the purpose of communication or lively expression. Dance as a medium of art has been evergreen just like the cedar. In numerous components of the globe, dance means various things to folks. In current decades, the inextinguishable dance-types have swept across the continents like wildfire.
The African continent has enjoyed its own justifiable share of the dance-craze. Since it has change into crucial for dance to go alongside with music, dance festivals have been organized in each nook and cranny round Africa.
In western Africa, Yul Edochie Nigeria has proven to be the center of the dance revolution. Each crevice in Nigeria has in latest instances give you a new dance style. The intrusion of a defiant dance tradition into Nigeria is just not a product of coincidence. Nigeria as a geographical entity is surrounded by French-talking West African neighbours on its borders. These French-speaking nations have beforehand enjoyed a very stable dance culture. In the late Nineteen Nineties, a dance called mapouka was banned by governments of several west- African countries for its extreme sexual contents. It is pertinent to note that the mapouka dance originated from Cote d’ Ivoire, another French-speaking West African country.
Within the late Nineties cum early 2.00s, the whirlwind visit of the makossa dance swept by means of the African continent like a volcano. The makossa dance step conquered virtually each African nation Nigeria inclusive. The makossa dance which originated from a certain French-talking West African nation was Nigeria’s most imported commodity at the moment (late 1990s cum early 2.00s). The makossa dance engulfed every Nigerian baby, youth and adult in various ways. It became so stylish that it eradicated the galala dance step which was the plenty’ selection whenever a party was thrown at them.
Previous to the advent of the makossa dance, the galala dance was the official dance in every Nigerian ghetto community. This dance fashion was highly promoted by outstanding Nigerian acts who occur to be an offspring of the ghetto community. Some notable acts that stood tall to advertise the galala cause embody Daddy Showkey, Baba Fryo & African China.
When the makossa dance gained an awesome recognition and loud ovation in the nation, the suo dance began to take its toll. The suo dance gradually substituted the makossa dance which paved method for its entrance into the Nigerian leisure scenario. I thought that the suo dance will get pleasure from a prolonged reign as Nigeria’s official ghetto dance style. The suo dance which was flaunted and promoted by artists like Danfo Drivers (mad melon and mountain black), Marvelous Benjy et al. entailed the decreasing of the waist and the swinging movements of the hands like somebody about to start out a generator set.
Before I might say ‘Jack’, my ideas had been confirmed to be a mere oversight. The yahoozee era had dawned on each Nigerian city. The yahoozee dance type had some damaging intonations; it was alleged to be a dance model founded by web scammers and fraudsters popularly known in Nigerian suburbs as yahoo boys. The reign of the dance poured on each Nigerian like a torrential downpour of rainfall. From the kindergarten schools to the colleges, the Nigerian folks did the yahoozee dance with a way of vigour. Nigerian singer, Olu Keep adopted this dance style as a trade mark and re-packaged yahoozee right into a brand. The dance which seems very imbecilic comprises quite a lot of hand actions while the toes stay quite stationary.
