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Gumboot dance
The gumboot dance (or Isicathulo〔http://kilby.sac.on.ca/activitiesclubs/outreach/malawi/isicathulo.htm〕) is an African dance that is performed by dancers wearing wellington boots. In South Africa these are more commonly called ''gumboots''.
The boots may be embellished with bells, so that they ring as the dancers stamp on the ground. This sound would be a code or a different calling to say something to another person a short distance away. It was basically used to communicate in the mines as there was strictly no talking otherwise they would get punished by their boss.
==Origin==
Gumboot dancing was conceived by black miners in South Africa as an alternative to drumming—which authorities restricted. Another reason for gumboot dancing was for the miners in South Africa as they worked they sang.
Gumboot dancing has now become a world-known dance; in schools children perform the dance.〔(Post-colonial drama: theory, practice, politics; by Helen Gilbert, Joanne Tompkins; Psychology Press, 1986; ''"The history of gumboot dancing in South Africa is similar: conceived by black miners as an alternative to the drumming that the authorities restricted, it used available objects such as gumboots, tin cans, and bottletops."'' )〕 The boots were a solution to a problem of often flooded gold mines in which men otherwise stood in knee-deep water toiling at their work stations.〔(Project Malawi; ''"The floors of the mines were often flooded, with poor or non-existent drainage. For the miners, hours of standing up to their knees in infected waters brought on skin ulcers, foot problems and consequent lost work time. The bosses discovered that providing gumboots (Wellington boots) to the workers was cheaper than attempting to drain the mines. This created the miners uniform, consisting of heavy black Wellington boots, jeans, bare chest and bandannas to absorb eye-stinging sweat."'' )〕 It is also thought that the workers used the gumboots to relay messages to each other that they did not want their bosses to overhear.
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