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WORLD, Page 38World NotesFRANCEDirty Dancing, Ma Cherie?
After the new chastity, it's a return to sin," proclaimed the
French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. It is the lambada, a sensuous
dance that sets the pelvis-to-pelvis physicality of Dirty Dancing
to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the northeast coast of
Brazil, the lambada has swept through France this summer. A soda
commercial showing young bodies entwined in a lambada frenzy was
an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that served as the ad's sound
track, has sold more than 1 million copies.
The lambada is especially hot along the Cote d'Azur, where
touring Brazilian dancers are showing French vacationers how to
thrust their stuff. But is the lambada just this summer's hype? "It
will become a classic," declares singer Loalwa Braz. "And it will
be even more agreeable to dance in the winter. It's a way to keep
warm."