Umbigada (from Portuguese umbigo, "navel"), sometimes translates as "belly bump" or "belly blow",[2] is a dance move in various Afro-Brazilian dances. It is seen as a "basic feature of many dances imported to Brazil and Portugal from the Congo-Angola region",[2] for example, samba, fandango, batuque, creole drum.[3]
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. [4]
It is commonly used as an invitation to dance, e.g., during samba de roda ("samba in circle").[4] However it may also constitute an element of the dance itself.[5][3]
- ^ Danças Brasileiras - Batuque Paulista - #Brincanteemcasa (in Brazilian Portuguese), retrieved 2022-12-08
- ^ a b Budasz, Rogério (February 2007). "Black guitar-players and early African-Iberian music in Portugal and Brazil". Early Music. 35 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1093/em/cal117.
- ^ a b 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)
- ^ a b Waddey 1981, p. 255.
- ^ "A UMBIGADA EM FILEIRA", Jangada Brazil, no. 40, December 2001