Barack Obama, a White House dancer
Whenever he has the opportunity, Barack Obama does not hesitate to take a few steps as well in the United States as during his official trips. His most recent challenge is a tango performed on March 23, 2016 ... in Argentina.
No one is a prophet in his own country. Except Barack Obama when he dances. Since their appearance on the American political scene, the Obama couple has shown their ease on a track. Even before entering the White House for the first time, Senator Barack Obama was already swaying on the set of host Ellen DeGeneres in 2007.
His demonstration is even the subject of a gentle competition between his wife and him. Still at Ellen De Generes, Michelle Obama gently mocks the performance of her husband who preceded her in the show a few weeks earlier. The examiner uses these remarks to challenge. The future 44th President of the United States responds by dancing again and affirming that he is perhaps less good than his wife but that he is "convinced" to be a better dancer than his Republican opponent in the presidential race. , Senator John McCain. Politics are firing on all cylinders, including their agility as a dancer.
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, the presidential couple will once again demonstrate that dance is a family affair. Especially since Michelle Obama, as part of her anti-obesity program "Let's Move", repeatedly proves that she is an excellent dancer. In 2009 and 2013, the Obamas delight America at the traditional balls which are organized on the evening of the inauguration ceremony of the American president.
But soon Barack Obama, who dances whenever he has the opportunity, exports his talents outside the United States. In 2010, during his trip to India, he sketched a few dance steps at the invitation of Indian students, led by a Michelle Obama who very quickly assimilated Indian choreography.
During his last African tour in 2015, he will not shy away from his pleasure either, especially in Kenya, his father's homeland. Alongside his sister Auma Obama and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, he tries his hand at Lipala dance on the hit of the Kenyan group Sauti Sol ... with a certain brilliance. Especially since he seems more at ease than the regional of the stage, President Kenyatta.
A few months later, on March 23, 2016, it is to a tango tune that the American president takes off on the dance floor, with a certain clumsiness given the technical level required, during the state dinner organized in his honor in Buenos Aires as part of his official visit to Argentina.
This is not the first time that the American head of state has tried a languid dance. He was, for a few minutes, the partner of the famous Mexican singer Thalia during the “Fiesta Latina” in October 2009 (from 3 ').
Besides his wife, Obama is fortunate to have exceptional date. Invited to the White House as part of Black History Month, Virginia McLaurin, 106, leads the presidential couple in their dance of joy. The centenary did not hide her emotion to be received at the White House by the first African-American president in the history of the United States.
Barack Obama's dancing talents are the subject of many parodies in the United States. In a music video, The Ellen Show even imagines her in the American version of "Dancing with the Stars".
But dance is not the only area in which Barack Obama has distinguished himself. The American president is also a good singer ...
