Pop Tourism

I took a two hour cumbia workshop back in the spring, but I'm still not really sure how to do it, or sometimes even how to recognize it. It didn't help that this was folklorically oriented, when I am mostly interested in how it would be danced to in clubs (not that much gets played in clubs around me, but occasionally it happens). It's Colombian, by the way (did someone say that already?), but it's fairly popular in other Latin American countries.

Many of the cumbia movements reminded me of things I had done in African dance classes long ago.