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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Interesting Dance and Music Style - Caporal

We were at the Festival of Nations last week in St.Paul. There were performers from various nations (or ones settled here in US). One dance that caught our attention was the Caporal dance from Bolivia. The first thing that caught my attention was the pleasant music of course until when my wife pointed me to a few other noticeable things.

The great thing about this dance form is that they have a common beat across all songs. The guys are dressed in traditional Spanish military attire and the ladies are in short skirts. Very nice !!!( Borat Style)
Another very distinctive piece of the music was the Bolivian Pan Flute used in the Caporal songs. It has a very different sort of tone, which is very different from other flutes.

I tracked down the original song and here's the link to the amazing music and dance from Bolivia. This is a song "Soy Caporal" by Tupay which was performed at the festival.

1 Comments:

At 5/17/2007 11:18 AM, Blogger Subbu said...

It was indeed a nice festival. Did u get the global passport !!!

I liked the Lebanese "Mayya Mayya" dance ... Well it was also Nice (Borat Style :-))

 

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