Seven 2014-2018 YouTube Videos Of Males Performing Ukusina (South African Zulu Dance) -This dance form is usually characterized by high leg lifts & dancers eventually purposely falling on their butt

ZamaHlubi Media House, 1 Sep 28, 2014

Every weekend @ Jabulani Hostel in Soweto (South Africa) it has become our culture to dance and entertain the crowds, with no special occasion and nothing to celebrate. The Hostel dwellers from Bergville came to JHB to work this is their way of remembering home. Even I just a Soweto boy its where I learned this type of … ****

Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post showcases seven YouTube videos of males performing the South African Zulu performance art form named Ukusina.(Read my editor's notes below for other references to this dance form). This post is presented without any examples of comments from the discussion threads for these videos. The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes. All copyrights remain with their owners. Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube, -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/01/five-youtube-videos-of-female-zulu.html for a pancocojams post that showcases female groups performing Ukusina. Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/01/comments-from-various-youtube-videos.html for a pancocojams post that presents selected comments about Ukusina from five YouTube discussion threads. These comments presents some information about that dance form, including answers to questions about why the dancers usually end their performances by purposely falling on their butt.

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DISCLAIMER: I'm an African American who recognizes that I am an outsider since I've not Zulu or from South Africa, I don't speak Zulu, I've never even been to Africa, and I'm just learning about what I refer to as the Ukusina performance art form. Therefore, I aware that the at least some of the information that I'm presenting in these pancocojams blog posts about Ukusina. Additions and corrections are very welcome. **** INFORMATION ABOUT UKUSINA

Ukusina is a traditional Zulu performance art form that includes dancing, singing/chanting, and sometimes musical instruments, particularly certain types of African drums and African flutes or horns. Whistles may also be blown in these performances.

Zulus originated the performance art form of Ukusina centuries ago. Ukusina is performed by males and by females. However, males and females dance separately. During the Ukusina performances that include musical instruments, males play those instruments.

This pancocojams blog showcases some modernized (2014 on) forms of Ukusina. These showcased videos consists of groups (teams) of males or of females performing mostly outdoor in competition with other teams for fan approval and fan followers. As such, it appears to me that providing entertainment is one of the main reasons for these performances besides preserving and honoring their Zulu heritage. The YouTube videos of female Ukusina dances that I've come across have later publishing dates than the male videos. It's likely that 2014-2018 YouTube videos of Zulu females performing Ukusina were topless. That likelihood might have influenced whether those videos were published on YouTube.

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These "early" YouTube videos of this modernized forms of Ukusina document that Zulu publishers of these videos have used several referents for this dance form prior to and/or at the same time as the term "Ukusina". The referents that I have found (given in no particular chronological order) are:

-indlamu (Note that it's incorrect to use this term for Ukusina performances.)

-hostel dancing - referents based on where the dance is performed or who is performing it such as "Zulu men traditional dancing", "--" hostel dance" (beginning with the name of the hostel), " -- prisoner dance (beginning with the name of the prison), Zulu (female) virgin dance (izintombi)

- Ingoma -ingoma ehostela (ingoma performed by males living in or associated with hostels   -uShameni
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ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS These videos are given in relative chronological order. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only. VIDEO #2 - Indlamu track 001

manzinimedia, Feb 25, 2014

Zulu music recorded live downtown Johannesburg.
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This dance form is mislabeled "indlamu" This is actually the earliest dated YouTube video of Ukusina that I've found as of the date of this pancocojams post.

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VIDEO #3 - Qalakabusha Prisoners Dance

Angela Kelly, Apr 14, 2015

**** VIDEO #4 - Ushameni Wakwa Mpungose - Umshoshaphansi

Thami Mpungose, Jul 24, 2015

Phushamoya: Umshoshaphansi

ingoma yakwa Mpungose ngaphansi kwegoso lasembangayiya. ingoma igidelwa izigodi ezintathu: Imbangayiya, Indonsa kanye no Mkhazane.
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Google translate from Zulu to English:

Phushamoya: Umshoshaphansi

a song from the Mpungose ​​clan under the Mbangayiya arch. The song is sung by three villages: Mbangayiya, Indonsa and Mkhazane.

**** VIDEO #5- Traditional dance at Ulundi..25 December 2016  

McBrian77 So To Be, Jan 22, 2017

25 december at Ulundi..Kzn province.South Africa

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VIDEO #6- UkuSina amadoda

@thobanimadlala, September 26,  2017

**** VIDEO #7 - WESTVILLE PRISON ZULU DANCE

Luks Gee, Aug 4, 2018

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