zulu dance costumes

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    Sights and Sounds: Phindile Gwala’s Heritage Day Dance

    ByAnita

    “Imbewu, the Seed” actress, Phidile Gwala was spotted doing the “Indlamu” dance. The Indlamu is a traditional dance performed by the Zulus in South Africa and their Ndebele cousins in Zimbabwe.The popular characteristic of the dance involves the dancers lifting a foot over their head and bringing it down sharply, to the beat of the…

  • Asavela Mngqithi In Zulu Traditional Attire Doing The Ingoma Dance

    BySammy

    Zulu Dance Ingoma (isizingili) The Zulu dance, ‘Ingoma,’ is a traditional dance usually performed by boys and girls without drums and accompanied by a chant.  The girls wear woolen skirts or some other kind of fabric and are usually bare-chested. They also wear rattles made of seedpods around the ankles to accent the high kicks…