doing the chicken

Last weekend we went to the “Club Aleman”.
You have to imagine the interior of that "club" like a period movie. Enter a (inconspicuous looking) building. There is a doorman, an elevator and a spacious stairway, all rather obscure, but with red carpet. Inside, seemingly randomly arranged rooms. Those are more or less empty but for chairs and tables, heavy chandeliers. The furniture is made of dark wood, it is also dark for the chunky curtains and the waiter who looks like a pimp behind a table with beverages… Well, this last bit had a different character, I read it as the Chilean part, with all the improvisation of a school event.
On the first floor we are passing tango – women heavily tarted up, in strange dresses and high shoes. Our thing is on the second floor: the national dance! It is called cueca.
Is there a national dance in Germany? Or England? The dance is awesome. I did not really get it at first, because there were only shy couples solitarily doing the thing, one after the other, although the atmosphere was great and raunchy. But then the pros stepped on stage (no stage involved)! That was so funny! For the dance has a narrative : The woman is a hen flirting with and teasing and getting away from the man, who is, you guessed it, a rooster. Imagine a guy doing a chicken, flapping the jacket, stamping the feet, moving the whole body in that sweeling, puffing fashion, uncannily like both a duck and a man (the latter puffing only on the inside, of course)
Here is a link to that dance. Enjoy! (oh, and watch the guy. Seriously, so much fun) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7bTRYWCS4&feature=related