Gumboot dance

Rooted back in the dark gold mine tunnels of South Africa, gumboot dancing has come full circle.

[citation needed] Gumboot dancers are commonly sighted on the streets and plazas of tourist areas in South Africa such as the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town.

Many of the steps and routines are parodies of the officers and guards who controlled the mines and barracks of South African gold miners.

[2] It is a percussive dance made by idiophones or autophones (objects of the everyday life vibrating by themselves), and is similar in execution and style to forms of "stepping" done by African-American fraternities and sororities.

At the beginning of every year, around the months of March and April, the team is responsible for choreographing and performing at the One World festival, an annual concert in Victoria, BC.