When the body dances but the song does not seduce

There are moments in Zimbabwean music when the body appears to speak before the mouth has uttered a word.

A dancer bends, turns, stamps, shakes the waist or throws the shoulders into rhythm, and almost immediately somebody watching from the margins begins to interpret the movement through the language of sexuality.

A woman moves her hips and she is called provocative.

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