It is theorized that African music and dance evolved a highly complex rhythmic character rather than the melodic line of early European music due, in part, to its being performed outdoors.

据推测，非洲的音乐和舞蹈之所以演变成高度复杂的节拍特征而不是欧洲早期音乐的旋律线性，部分的原因，是因为它们是表演在户外的。

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This dance has in turn changed the character of Washington.

这种方式改变了华府的性质。

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He became more character than singer: his sequined glove, his whitened face, his moonwalk dance move became embedded in the cultural firmament.

他已不仅仅是位歌手，他那带有亮片的手套，他瓷白色的脸庞，他的月光舞步早已嵌入文化的苍穹。

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The dance's overwrought action presents the title character, originally danced by Graham, at the center of a tangle among goddesses and related characters.

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Another cherished dance is malambo, where a solo male gaucho performs his best steps to show off boldness of character and upstage other male competitors.

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Another sexually shaded comic highlight comes when Tomei and Lyonne (whose character, until this point, is virtually played like a teen-age Selma Diamond) break into a spontaneous dance that features Tomei's vibrator as a sort of stage prop.

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