Gumboot Dancers in Cape Town

[finger1979]

the question is: who was first???? the gumbootdance or the bavarian Platler?? ^^

[TheLeah1018]

love that they were performing in a handicapped parking space in front of a bunch of white people eating at an outdoor cafe.

[PhilippineCreation]

african dances are the ancestor of the jazz music...

[EdwardTheGentleman]

this is pretty cool, i'd love to go to south africe but i'm a student... therefore i can't afford it. :(

[MrUnkown626]

thats crazy ,what legends

[Phalanx3800]

gay...

[umnin10dude]

@Phalanx3800 get out of hear of you dont know what it means im 11 and i understand what it means

[Phalanx3800]

@umnin10dude

cool story bro.

I still think it's gay.

[maribispo2011]

muito lindo!!!! venha pro brasil!!

[mycompasstv]

Wow, are these guys ever great! 

[CapVlogs]

Why was. Nobody clapping. At the. End!? That's so selfishh!

[MafiaOutlaw1]

Loved this dance when i lived over in SA as a kid

[astrotoadp6]

thumbs up if you were sent here by your music DECV coursework.

(LOLOLTHUMBSUPISCOOL)

[pjdabest]

I respect these guys (gumboot) research their history it's very interesting . And how the name originates

[beckys757]

I don't get it.

[AListKing]

hoyaaa Keep it Capetonian gents, haha. love the mothercity.

[MaDDTC]

Wow, no love at the end? This is why everyone hates white people.

[DementedClownArmy]

Four people aren't black =/

[umnin10dude]

@DementedClownArmy 5

[denyamay1]

UNBELIEVABLE.....Im MORE SHOCKED AT THE POOR RESPONSE TO THESE INCREDIBLE PERFORMERS....THE AUDIENCE TOTALLY SUCKED.

[Charisse709]

Yesss! :) :) :) So good!

[skimaniac34]

lol i`m doing this for a school production thing while playing fred gumboots its a great song listen 2 it new zealand rocks

[kcnumbernine]

cool

[glittergirls10]

what are some facts on gumboot dancing ???

[MsNatedawgy]

how come they didn't get a huge applause? That was an awesome street performance.

[ajua2k5]

its like stomp the yard b4 stomp the yard lol

[SuperJohanna1994]

Voll Lustig haha :D

[ELroxursox]

Aww i miz South Africa =( My hometown Johannesburg especially =(

hopefully ill get to go nd visit sum time soon

gr8 video! =))

[MrLudiko]

Why do hey dance on a parkingslot for disable person????ß:D

[missouchi]

I miss u guys Tabiso Brodwiks

[king7wood]

I want to go to Camps Bay

[loyisoable]

I was the leader of that group, 3rd one on the row from that side, and the guy with a shirt was our voice leader, I am now studying at Cape peninsula University of Technology doing 2nd year Marketing looking foward to life and that dancing really helped us Bcoz we could buy school uniform and go to School..... we would like us to show this to the visitors on this 2010. but we need a support from someone with a good heart who can apply us a permision to dance for 2010 visitors in places...

[zim93boy]

@loyisoable can you pleaz post a instructional vid cuz i really want to learn how to do this

[NoMercyStepCo]

Love Gumboot dancing..have you ever check out the new style of step dance in the USA ? Check out our channel! :)

[136joni]

sieht aus wie behinderte

[sexythunderqtpie]

If I were there, I'd give them a roaring applause.

Ugh.

[shannonwri]

Looks like Camps Bay...is that where they are?

[simonleher]

Hi Shannonwri, Yep, that's Camps Bay!

[CarrierProtein]

@simonleher

one of the the most beautiful places in cape town

[mycompasstv]

great dancers!

[roxyexkader]

mzansi...i love my country!

[Blueswoman55]

My last comment: Look up the German Schuhplattler ... Greetings from Bavaria

[Blueswoman55]

Wikipedia - Part 2: "Further more Eurocentric theories suggest that the dance with the dances of Russian sailors in the port of Durban, or by German missionaries who had taught the blacks instead of the Bavarian Schuhplattln unwanted tribal dances, was the result," Greetings form Bavaria, Germany - Roots of Schuhplattler

[Blueswoman55]

Wikipedia - Part 1: "The term for the dance (isicathulo) comes from the shoes that are worn at the dance, the rubber boots. It developed from about 1880 among the black miners in the gold mines around Johannesburg in South Africa. Their living and working conditions were awful and the dance was a response to the racist oppression of apartheid and unbridled exploitation of black labor.

[Buck295]

for that great performance they deserved a much greater applause! A shame!

[sesshysgurl23]

haha!! i kno where this is....i always go there to have lunch... and those guys arealways there

[gammafoxtrot]

ＮgiaBongo Baba...

Amanthle Amawetho!

[clipside2]

that is so fuckin sick at the end where its all the people just not even lookin at them... fucksake like what the hell!

[d2pans]

Firstly, I am pretty sure the people are tourists, as that's who might pay tips. The locals sure won't. Secondly, to many, these talented guys are "beneath them" so they won't acknowledge them. Apartheid is not dead...just now illegal on the books.

[bintasyllah]

Ok, but tourist don't support apartheid. In fact most blacks in SA claim to prefer dealing white from elsewhere rathern than white SAs. I def. get what you mean about performing to a tourist pop, but I would expect the reaction from local whites, not foreign. I'm just saying...

[ketso432]

why are they dancing to a majority of white people who act as if they dont care..wtf?? if they came to this country they would totally win britain's got talent because they are really good..no more dancing for ppl that don give a shit..here in Britain if an individual has a talent which they do then it is recognised...Thank you Simon cowell

[nizar143]

is the guy with the shirt is the captain?

[vajraskyj]

awesome dude!

shosholoza mining genre in action!

[tiffuhny]

i wish i was black

[statblue]

gumboot dancing comes from the mines, but lets all cash in

[toopwettyluli]

why not they thought they could stop us from speaking our language instead we developed a new one

[didglesville]

Whatever happened to Sipho Ndlela and Vincent Ncabashe?

[kwindla]

my man i saw sipho ndlela in Montreal 2 years back, and im going there again next week. been trying to track him down i am not winning...but will do at the end..

[nhraim]

TROP FORT!!!!!!!

[MTH19]

Wow, this dance is almost like "Schuhplattler" in Bavaria, Germany.

But much faster.

[amosobadja]

One begins to wonder how widespread this danceform eventually is. In some Hungarian male dances you get a lot of similar stuff.

[Vennies]

how old is this video?

[simonleher]

It says in the description... January 2007 - Taken when my brother got married in Cape Town!

[LibertaBleronRiona]

very funny

[94jello]

ffff

[holyorderoftruth]

Just like the good old days

[pianoman47]

nice

[TuamOrxO]

HOM3 SW33T HOM3!!

i miss th3 gumbOOtz danc3rz

this is fab s.a cultur3

sOm3On3 tak3 m3 hOm3 LoL

gr8 vid3O!!,

[nickja154]

lolwut?