DIRTY DANCING

AS A KID I ADORED THIS SONG AND ITS RISQUÉ MOVES – NO WONDER IT’S ALSO REFERRED TO AS ‘THE FORBIDDEN DANCE’.

LAMBADA IS A BRAZILIAN DANCE FOR COUPLES THAT BECAME INTERNATIONALLY POPULAR IN THE LATE 80S, ESPECIALLY IN LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES. IT’S GENERALLY DANCED WITH ARCHED LEGS, WITH THE STEPS BEING FROM SIDE TO SIDE OR TURNING WITH A PRONOUNCED SEXY SWIRLING ACTION IN THE HIPS. AT THE TIME WHEN THE DANCE BECAME POPULAR, SHORT SKIRTS FOR WOMEN WERE THE CRAZE, ‘THE LAMBADA SKIRT’, AS I WOULD CALL MINE, WOULD SWIRL UP OH SO CONVENIENTLY WHEN THE WOMAN SPUN AROUND AND MADE THE BOYS GO LOCO.