Pour en finir avec les danses féminines de séduction

This research focuses on secular dances, exploring the competitive aspect of dexterity that plays out among women. While gathering the dancers’ testimonies, it aims to analyze, using Laban notation, the specific physical skills required by each of these dances. This research focuses on secular dances, reconstructing them. In doing so, the project maps out “pelvic dances”: specifically, the Mahoran mbiwi, the Cape Verdean batuka, the Réunionese séga and maloya, and, beyond these, the Baka dances, the Puno dances, the Mayottean debaa, and the Mozambican tufo.