indonesian_open Poco Poco Dance - Request for help

[Shinta Benilda]

Hi Mark,

It's not easy to explain a dance movement through words :)

Basically the poco-poco dance itself is very simple:
Basic move:

Foot movements
1. two times move to the right, (right foot, left foot, right foot,
left foot-dot)
2. two times move to the left, (left foot, right foot, left foot,
right foot-dot)

Hand movements:
1. When the right foot move to the right, the right hand move
downwards and move upwards otherwise. When the left foot make the dot
then the hand paused for a while before starts again (following the
movements to the left)
2. The opposite of no. 1 for the left movements.

And the 'goyang' must be patah-patah ya ....(hip move according to the
foot direction)

Then move towards the four cardinal points for the same movement
before changing to another movements.

I hope it's clear enough. Anyway if you are in Canberra, I'll be happy
to show the movements to you though :)

In case that you need the translation of the song:

POCO POCO

Balenggang pata-pata
Berlenggang patah-patah 

Ngana pe goyang pica-pica
Goyanganmu pecah-pecah

Ngana pe body poco-poco
Badanmu 'sintal'

Cuma ngana yang kita cinta
Cuma kamu yang saya cinta

Cuma ngana yang kita sayang
Cuma kamu yang saya sayang

Cuma ngana suka beking pusing
Hanya saja kamu suka bikin pusing

Ngana bilang kita na sayang
Kamu bilang saya tidak sayang

Rasa hati ini malayang
Rasa hati ini melayang

Jauh cija cija
Jauh ???

Biar kita ngana pe bayang
Biar saya menjadi bayanganmu

Biar na beking layang-layang
Biar tidak membuat (saya menjadi) melamun

Cuma ngana yang kita sayang
Cuma kamu yang saya sayang

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I am not sure about the meaning of cija. Will check it tomorrow with
my menado friend and will let you know about this.

I hope my two cents worth :)

Salam manis,
Shinta


On 5/18/05, Mark Bassett <indtrans at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Would anyone have the instructions for how to do the Poco-poco dance from
> Menado/Eastern Indonesia?
> 
> In case you're interested, you can get an MP3 file with the music at Source:
> http://www.theminahasa.com/social/stories/pocopoco.html
> 
> Terima kasih sebelumnya :)
> 
> Mark
> 
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