Five Videos Of The Congolese Traditional Music & Dance Group "Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli"

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post is Part II of a two part series that showcases the traditional dancing, singing, and musical instrument performances of Democratic Republic Of The Congo's Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli.

Part II presents five videos of Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli that showcase that group's musical and dance performances. Selected comments from one of those video's discussion threads is included in that post.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/two-videos-of-traditional-congolese.html for Part I of this series. Part I presents two videos of that group that showcase that group's musical and dance performances, including body patting movements and other elements that are very similar to if not the same as those performed by historically Black Greek lettered fraternities and sororities during stepping and strolling (party walks).

The content of this post is presented for folkloric, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all of those associated with Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli for their outstanding musical and dance performances. Thanks also for sharing these videos on YouTube.

Unfortunately, as of this post's publication, only one of these video's discussion threads includes informative comments about those videos and I've not been able to find out any information about Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli. Information about these dances & songs, and information about this group would be greatly appreciated.

Click the African American fraternity & sorority stepping tag and the Pattin Juba tag below for pancocojams posts about those performance art movements.

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: Traditional Congolese Dance - Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli



Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli, Published on Mar 22, 2014

Traditional Congolese Dance Group Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli in Kinsha August 2013
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Here are selected comments from this video's discussion thread:
2015
TiqueO6
"Beautiful!
What is the name of the rhythm here? And the song?
Thank you!"
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Reply
Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli
"+TiqueO6 The song is called Arumbaya. The band creates all their own songs and lyrics. n this song they invite you to come and see and listen to their work. They sing about how much they love their work.
The rhythm that is used here is called baboma it originates from the province Bandundu in The Congo drc"

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aura pruitt
"What is this dance about? Is it a ceremonial dance?"

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Reply
Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli (2016)
"The dance is about woman catching fish in a river. They take water with fish from the river and when the water dries up on the bank they are left with the fish they share that with the other women who put it in their baskets to take it to the village."

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Clementine
"Africans are all the same especially in their dances. The dance here looks every inch Igbo from the Eastern part of Nigeria."

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Reply
Clementine
"Some part looks Yoruba too from the western part of Nigeria."

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olivia seed
"True this is my tribal dance"

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2016
Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli
"They are from Congo Kinshasa"

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Example #2: Congolese Dance - Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli December 2013



Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli, Published on Mar 22, 2014

Repetition of Traditional Congolese Dance group Arumbaya

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Example #3: Traditional dancing with Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli



Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli, Published on Mar 22, 2014

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Example #4:Congo - Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli



Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli, Published on Mar 22, 2014

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Example #5: Percussion et Danse Traditionnelle Congolaise par Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli



Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli, Published on Nov 17, 2014

Spectacle de percussion, danse et chansons traditionelle Congolaise par Ballet Arumbaya Ndendeli a Kinshasa D.R. Congo

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