Nice job but PLEASE CHANGE THE TITLE OF YOUR VIDEO. Your video is not using any original Zouk music, neither original Zouk dance style. So, please, if you want to remain accurate to your subscribers, make sure you use the accurate title and replace '' Zouk'' by '' Brazilian zouk'' as it is very different. First off, zouk music is absolutely not from Brazil. It was born in the 1970s in the French-speaking Caribbean island named Guadeloupe. It became a musical craze that swept around the world in the 1980s, thanks in large part to innovative bands like KASSAV' that played concerts internationally. Artists in several other countries were soon imitating and borrowing from the sounds of zouk. Zouk is also a Caribbean dance style that is, quite logically, danced to zouk music. It is not a performance dance but a purely social one. Zouk has also been used to label an entirely separate dance family that does come from Brazil, derived from their traditional dance of lambada but danced to original zouk music. Further confusion has arisen as new artists have been making all sorts of fusion with zouk, so dancers are often not dancing to true Caribbean zouk music at all, but R&B, hip-hop, electronica, and even acoustic contemporary. As this form has gained popularity internationally, huge numbers of people worldwide have come to associate this word “Zouk” solely with the Brazilian dancing. Thank you again for your understanding. :)
As you state, "Zouk has also been used to label an entirely separate dance family that does come from Brasil, derived from their traditional dance of lambada but danced to original zouk music". The expression 'zouk' is nowadays used to describe this popular form of dance (brasilian zouk). Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with that. Interestingly original caribbean zouk music is called compas (?) now. What's up with that?
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Nice job but PLEASE CHANGE THE TITLE OF YOUR VIDEO.
Your video is not using any original Zouk music, neither original Zouk dance style.
So, please, if you want to remain accurate to your subscribers, make sure you use the accurate title and replace '' Zouk'' by '' Brazilian zouk'' as it is very different.
First off, zouk music is absolutely not from Brazil. It was born in the 1970s in the French-speaking Caribbean island named Guadeloupe. It became a musical craze that swept around the world in the 1980s, thanks in large part to innovative bands like KASSAV' that played concerts internationally. Artists in several other countries were soon imitating and borrowing from the sounds of zouk.
Zouk is also a Caribbean dance style that is, quite logically, danced to zouk music. It is not a performance dance but a purely social one.
Zouk has also been used to label an entirely separate dance family that does come from Brazil, derived from their traditional dance of lambada but danced to original zouk music. Further confusion has arisen as new artists have been making all sorts of fusion with zouk, so dancers are often not dancing to true Caribbean zouk music at all, but R&B, hip-hop, electronica, and even acoustic contemporary.
As this form has gained popularity internationally, huge numbers of people worldwide have come to associate this word “Zouk” solely with the Brazilian dancing.
Thank you again for your understanding. :)
@Dana Najem No problem...it is just about respecting others culture. As this video has nothing to see with zouk. :)
As you state, "Zouk has also been used to label an entirely separate dance family that does come from Brasil, derived from their traditional dance of lambada but danced to original zouk music". The expression 'zouk' is nowadays used to describe this popular form of dance (brasilian zouk). Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with that. Interestingly original caribbean zouk music is called compas (?) now. What's up with that?