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World Dance- African

I've shared quite a few dance videos in the past year or so and I thought it would be good to round them up by genre. Today I'm focusing on African dance, plus featuring a couple of new videos. :)

Please note that I haven't included North African dances because I tend to listen to Arabic music that people belly dance to, and I will do a separate post on that. There are other dances though such as Kabyle dance which I may feature in future. :)


African dance/Afrobeats Tutorials

You can find Afro dance tutorial by Presh Okosi from Nigeria and some others in these posts:


Includes a beginners' dance tutorial: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/04/dance-videos.html

Features a tutorial for how to do 5 basic Afrobeat moves by Presh and a choreo to Rema's Dumebi by Nneka Irobuna: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/07/dance-videos.html

Includes another beginners' dance tutorial by IsaWelly and a video on doing basic Afro House Footwork from Presh (her channel is one of my favourite dance channels): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-dance-videos-round-up.html

Features another video from Presh, this time on how to do 5 dances from Nigeria and a poco dance tutorial by REvs Vevo: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/12/dance-videos.html 

Including a Presh video featuring the most popular African dances of 2019: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/04/dance-videos.html  

Presh teaches 5 popular Afro dances from Ghana and you can also find a beginners' legwork tutorial from All About Yana: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/dance-videos.html

Features a video about the Top 10 African dance styles of 2020: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/11/world-dance-videos-2020.html  

Includes a 12-minute basic legwork tutorial from Presh: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/02/dance-videos.html

In this (mostly) couples' edition dance video, I shared a dance to Yemi Alade's Johnny by real life couple Tileh and Martina: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/07/dance-videos.html


And now here are a couple of videos I haven't previously posted. :)


Eskista Dance by Feta Eskesta (Ethiopia)

This is an eskista dance by Feta Eskesta. Eskista is a dance from the Amhara region of Ethiopia and is centred on shoulder movements. You can read more about it here: https://www.yamralafrica.com/eskista-ethiopian-dance/

The video was posted back in November 2019, but you can find a couple of new shorts from this year on her channel (linked below). 



Follow Feta Eskesta's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRcYgl8caqUjGJb9sGzCtVg


Check out this playlist by Hibist Yohannes for the basics of how to eskista (to gojam music specifically): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mC-jhKPsyk&list=PLsJT3CBhFgOTq5UJfe2UamZSs8qCoQa8O

 


Mr Eazi Overload Afro Dance Tutorial- All About Yana

Finally, here is a new tutorial by Yana of All About Yana (see the Dance Videos post from July 2020 for another of her videos). It's a dance to the song Overload by Mr Eazi and featuring Slimcase and Mr Real. 

The video was uploaded on 6th August and it's a beginner friendly tutorial.  

Note: Playback has been disabled on 3rd party sites, but you can view the video fine on YouTube. :)




Hope you liked the post! :) There are more African dance styles that I can feature in future. What is your favourite dance style/s?


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