<p>Can you tell a Popero from a Me sugar?. Do you know the dance move for I have a lot of breasts? Or did you know that the brightly-coloured clothing worn by kuduro artists and dancers are supposed to represent their personality?</p>

<p>If the answer to any of these is no, then you need to pay a visit to Os Kuduristas when it hits your city.</p>

<p>The group Os Kuduristas is a kuduro-based roadshow/cultural exchange programme put together to raise the global awareness of Angolan dance, music, culture. It has been on an international tour.</p>

<p>Kuduro (which means hard ass in Portuguese) is an urban music, dance and fashion phenomenon that echoes the country's cultural and economic renaissance. Born in the Information Age, it is the cultural expression of a new international and post-war generation and reflects reflects the fast pace of the capital city Luanda with accelerated rhythms, energetic moves, bright colours, and slang.</p>

<p>The raw electronic sound of the music itself - an amalgam of electronic techno and house beats, semba, samples and raps - has been filtering out into the world since it started in the early 1990s, catching the ear of musicians and DJs like M.IA., Bj&ouml;rk and Diplo, but despite ambassadors of such calibre, most of the world knows next to nothing about the culture itself, how it developed and continues to evolve (for instance, by gradually merging with house), the terminology, the relationship between kuduro culture and Angolan society, or how kuduro bridges the gap between Angolan and global cosmopolitan identity. It even took awhile for it to go mainstream in Lisbon, which has a significant Angolan population.</p>

<p>Enter Os Kuduristas, which kicks off with a series of dance street battles in Amsterdam, Paris, Stockholm and New York. Top Angolan Kuduro dancers will take on challenging dancers of different styles in each market &ndash; in both battle form and workshops. The roadshow includes the opportunity to experience the Angolan Quintal (backyard party), offering the sights and sounds of Angola through an experiential journey that includes music, dance, art, fashion design, film, and Angolan inspired cuisine.</p>

<p>Groundbreakers</p>

<p>To be fair, one of the reasons most people outside Angola don't know much about kuduro culture is because most of what has been written about it is in Portuguese. So the people behind Os kuduristas have put together what must surely be the most comprehensive English language website in existence about kuduro culture. Take a look at their dance dictionary, for instance (click on the thumbnails); enough dance moves there to keep anyone busy for days. The site includes articles and videos about the origin and development of kuduro, the technology behind the music, the dance and dancers, the artists, the DJs, the fashion, and pretty much anything you ever wanted to know about kuduro but were afraid to ask for fear of sounding clueless.</p>

<p>Featured Quintal performers include some of the biggest names in Angola&rsquo;s Kuduro scene: the groundbreaking dancer and choreographer, Manuel Kanza (winner of the 2008 hit Angolan television dance competition, &quot;Bounce&quot;), underdog sensation Cabo Snoop, Kuduro heartthrob Francis Boy, and quirky local favorites Os Namayer: President Gasolina &amp; Principe Ouro Negro. DJ Silyvi, a staple on Angola&rsquo;s electronic music scene, will be the house DJ for Os Kuduristas, taking on battle challenges with local DJs in Paris and Amsterdam.</p>

<p>The Quintal also boasts a fashion show by Angola's award-winning fashion designers Projecto Mental. The ground breaking fashion duo, comprised of Tekasala Ma&rsquo;at Nzinga and Shunnoz Fiel, have been at the forefront of the revival of Angolan fashion and creativity for the past ten years.</p>

<p>The Os Kuduristas folk have also loaded up a bunch of tracks from kuduro artists like Tony Amado, Bobany King, Noite e Dia, Propia Lixa to their Soundcloud page - and will continue to add more throughout the tour.</p>