Umoja

The dance I learned in class last week was called Umoja. It is a very interesting dance that originated in Africa and is very spiritual. It involves a lot of arm movement where you "praise the gods" and stamping on the ground beating on the bad spirits. This dance is very simple and consists of, "planting, birds, and circle-shake collapse". These things are the steps of the dance and even though it is pretty simple to learn it is very deep in meaning.