Lambada long trousers, and the dance has become associated with such clothing, especially for women wearing short skirts that swirl up when the woman spins around, typically revealing 90s-style thong underwear. Also known as the forbidden dance, from the time that Brazil was a Portuguese colony, Carimbó was a common dance in the northern part of the country. Carimbó was a loose and very sensual dance which involved many spins by the female dancer, who typically wore a rounded skirt. The music was mainly to the beat of drums made of trunks of wood, thinned by fire. Carimbó involved only side
Glossary of country dance terms complete circular, clockwise turn to place. Turn by right or left - dancers join right (or left) hands and turn around, separate, and "fall" to places. Turn single - dancers turn around in four steps. 'Turn single right shoulder' is a clockwise turn; 'turn single left shoulder' is a counterclockwise turn. Up a double and back - common combination in which dancers (usually having linked hands in a line) advance a double and then retire another double. Glossary of country dance terms An alphabetic list of modern Country dance terminology; Active Couple - for long-ways sets with more than one