Batuque de Umbigada de Piracicaba - 0061

Umbigada (from Portuguese ''umbigo'', "

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") is a dance move in various Afro-Brazilian dances. Sometimes translates as "belly bump" or "belly blow", it is performed as follows: a dancer opens her arms and extends her navel towards another dancer. The bodies of the two dancers may or may not touch. Waddey 1981, p. 255. It is seen as a "basic feature of many dances imported to Brazil and Portugal from the Congo-Angola region": samba,

fandango Fandango is a lively partner dance originating from Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has ...

, batuque, tambor de crioula, and many others. It is commonly used as an invitation to dance, e.g., during ''

samba de roda Samba is a lively dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to samba music. The term "samba" originally referred to any of several Latin duet dances with origins from the Congo and Angola. Today Samba is the most pr ...

'' ("'' samba'' in circle"). However it may also constitute an element of the dance itself. "A UMBIGADA EM FILEIRA"
''Jangada Brazil'', no. 40, December 2001 Chapter XXII: Umbigada (pp. 130-141 in: Luís da Câmara Cascudo, ''Made in Africa, pesquísas e notas'', 1965, and later editions
CÂMARA CASCUDO, Luís da. ''Made in Africa''. São Paulo: Global Editora, 2001; por Camila Lembo
an overview, retrieved May 23, 2016)

References

*Ralph Waddey, "Viola de Samba" and "Samba de Viola" in the "Reconcavo" of Bahia (Brazil) Part II: "Samba de Viola", Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música LatinoamericanaVol. 2, No. 2 (Autumn - Winter, 1981), pp. 252-279 Afro-Brazilian culture Dance moves Samba {{dance-stub