View image in fullscreen Biama is a frenetic subgenre of coupé-décalé. Over time, he increased the tempo of his music to match the high-energy, acrobatic roukaskas routines devised by his dancers, drawing on traditional Ivorian dance. “Biama is, first of all, a dance for the immature,” the popular dancer Kalomaman said in a recent interview. Kouamé argues that dance has always been inseparable form Ivorian music. “Since the beginning of Ivorian music, as artists were creating their sounds, they were also thinking of the dance moves,” he says.