Havana Knows How to Dance!

Yes, Havana knows how to dance and Khartoum knows that too.

However, while Havana is free to dance, as she likes, Khartoum does not. There is a fast and big gap between the capital city of Cuba and the capital city of Sudan.

I found myself impressed by many Cuban dances, although I lived thousands of miles far away from Cuba, thousands of years ago, when I was very young.

That was not strange, as we had many Cuban's names, as well as Brazilian names and Korian names making great places in Sudan and in the Capital City of Khartoum; one of the three metropolises that make the triplex capital of Sudan. Four bridges connect the three cities that make the capital.

We had Copacabana, which some people call Cuba Cubana. It was a name of a public small square with bars, restaurants, cafes and fashion shops engaged at the calm beautiful evenings by the Sudanese bourgeois, the Sudanese Greeks and the intelligentsia of the country, from both the middle class and the proletarian power.

Think that was a rich environment? Yes, it was, but not now, as fundamentalist military junta claiming false Islamic propagandas rules it. Sudanese Muslims have no any problem with that simple and beautiful varied life of the country.

In that varied environment, people made appointment to meet at Copacabana. At that place the Sudanese bourgeois used to spend their leisure time playing domino and chatting and the intelligentsia used to discuss their literature, works of arts and secular political issues and the proletarian class used to discuss Angles, Marks and Lenin and then made thoughts about possible implementation that replies to the needs of a different country.

Among the outstanding discussions was a discussion about theatrical and opera performances such as the British girls dance performance in Gordon Music Hall. The performance made the first mainsheet in one of the newspapers that read the Bosoms of the British Girls Lit the Night of Khartoum.

As it reflects the meaning, or perhaps the feeling of the soft sand, Copacabana was real multi-intercontinental landmark that the dictatorial regime had erased from the cultural life of the capital to prepare for its false Islamic Sharia Laws.

The same thing the recent similar regime does to destroy simply any kind of cosmopolitan thinking and real modern life in the country, getting it back to the middle ages. Hey, this is politics and this is not its place. If you wished this, continue at the HOA Political Scene Blog.

This why I considered Copacabana and other similar public places as landmarks that had played the flexible lane between varied cultures to enrich the local cultures of the country.

When the dances performed in the city famous halls, or even in private marriage celebrations, girls and boys danced the Samba. At that time, we had a feeling that was a local Sudanese dance. It was and it still considered a Sudanese dance, at least to some people who know it.

It has even a song by the same name Samba. I do not know whether I have mentioned that at the Sudanese Music lens or not.

The danzonete dance principally is a French contra dance. Cuba knew this dance during the early 19th century. Since people dance on music, so the word may refer to canzonet, which is a light humour song.

The danzon dance is the later development to the danzonete, which has taken place to present a Cuban style of national dance.

Copacabana, the soft sand is a word taken to name places, such as cafeterias, cafés, hotels, restaurants, plazas, casinos, etc. It is even a name to a main Bolivian town on the shores of Lake Titicaca, which lies on the border between Bolivia and Peru. It is also a name of one of the two famous beaches of Rio de Janeiro, the former capital of Brazil until Brasilia took its place in 1960.

For more information about those places see Beautiful Matanzas City.

The first time Cuba knew the rumba music was in the 19th century when the first performance took place at the Versalles Quarter at the north of Rio Yumuri. To read about those places, take a jump to beautiful Matanzas City.

Since some references suggest that it was an old music genre played by slaves to amuse and entertain their masters, I should connect this with the following historical fact.

One source says in the 19th century, some French fled from Haiti to Cuba and then colonized the mentioned area in Cuba and at the 1890s; people started to play the rumba in that area.

Other source refers to the African roots of the rumba according to the instruments used to play it. See the drums. When we look to the fact of the slaves in that history, we will come to agree with the second part of this controversial issue, which says the rumba is originally African.

Well, Cuba has that African heartbeat too since its early history. Therefore, it is Afro-Cuban rumba. The French simply and until the moment admire the African styles of music and open a large door for African artists to get well experienced in all kinds and genres of arts, be famous and enter the world from the French gate.

In the following DVD: It's not exactly Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but this 1998 entry, starring Vanessa Williams and newcomer Chayanne offers its own terpsichorean pleasures.

The story centres on Rafael Infante (Chayanne), a Cuban émigré to Texas, where he takes a menial job at a local dance studio run by John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson).

There, he falls for Ruby Sinclair (Vanessa Williams), a one-time ballroom championship contender looking for the opportunity to compete for the title once more.

The romance seems a foregone conclusion but has some snap thanks to a crisp performance by Williams and a sunny (if limited) one by Chayanne, a singing star in Puerto Rico.

Best of all is the dancing itself. In terms of energy, exuberance, and style, this film's dance sequences rank with the best of the decade's limited celebration of the kinetic art, such as Strictly Ballroom and Shall We Dance. Though the movie's central plot secret seems obvious from the first downbeat, the film takes off every time the dance music kicks in.

Here is an opportunity to see how people dance in Cuba and to enjoy good holidays, taking the available cheap travel deals.

When you capture the streamline of the dance, you burn not only your partner, but also your audience.