Music and dance native to African slaves, the séga is the artistic form most spread by the island. It dances by making slip feet on the soil without ever raising them. The visible simplicity of this dance finds its origin due to the fact that sand prevented from making sophisticated steps. As for music, it blends its African origins with accents of latin american salsa and calypso of Caribbean.

The different instruments of the séga are:

Maravane, constituted by lined up sugar canes, is in rectangular form. It is a kind of box containing pebbles or metallic balks. The musician agitates the instrument with rhythm wanted to accompany the singer and the other instruments.

Ravane, chief room of the séga is a drum sharpened in the wood of Chinese guava. It is covered with a tense goatskin.

The Triangle, is also ubiquitous. Bobre, constituted by a wooden piece tightened by two ropes and linked up with a calabash. This instrument is hardly used any more at present in the séga.

Apart from Séga, there are also music and traditional dances which come to us from these Chinese and Indian immigrants and who came to settle on the island. There is not so much to compare themselves with refinement and with elegance of the Indian classical ballet. Draped in their multi colored saris, these dancers carry out their dance on a definite choreography where every position and pose express a clean sense her. These dances are accompanied with music in the exquisite sounds coming from the sitar and of the magic of oriental culture banked on expressing all refinement in their union and. Traditional Chinese most known dances are the dance of the dragon and the lion. These dances precisely the ancestral dancers revaluate life in these mystical cultural entertainments. Most of the big Mauritius Hotels organize cultural shows for special opportunities where you will see these dancers and musicians performing. During the period of holidays, the Caudan Port Louis Waterfont organizes special shows of where you will be able to admire rich cultural diversity that the island Maurice inherited.

Western music has also its importance in Mauritian culture. Popular music such the rap, the hip-hop and rock dominate stages but you will also find of the jazz, of other music and even more traditional dances as Waltz and everything types of ballroom dancing. There is a very big evaluation also as the music style of the sixties in 70 with priorities for Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Englebert Hemperdick. Whatever Anglo-Saxon music is more appreciated among European music, the links which the Mauritian with French culture kept play the music and most known and most appreciated French artists.