Cueca

The cueca is a couple dance in which the two dance partners move toward and in a semi-circle around each other. The cueca thus acts as a mating dance. The dancer and the dancer each carry a handkerchief in her right hand, with which they emphasize their movements and the Balzcharakter of dance.

Cueca in Chile

The cueca has been officially declared a national dance of Chile and is also particularly again danced every year at the celebration of the National Day on September 18.

In Chile there are several different regional variations of the cueca. This corresponds to the respective forms of regional music and dance folklore and also has its equivalent in each case, typical of the clothes that are worn at the cueca by the dancers.

Since the time of the Pinochet regime of the cueca is a form of expression of protest: women to their " disappeared" relatives mourned the cueca wont mute, wordless and dance alone - stapled to the photos of missing relatives to the chest. The pop singer Sting has these women with his song They Dance Alone a monument.

Cueca in Bolivia

The cueca is also referred to as the national dance of Bolivia and is widely used accordingly. Depending on the state cueca Paceña, cueca Chuquisaqueña, cueca Potosina, cueca Cochabambina, cueca Tarijeña and cueca Chapaca be distinguished. The triple rhythm is indeed strong in all these dance variants of the same but vary the pace and style by county. The Cuecas from La Paz, Chuquisaca and Potosí are the most elegant and slowest during the cueca Tarijeña and the cueca Chapaca be danced very fast. The cueca Chapaca heard as well as the Chacarera to gaucho folklore of the Gran Chaco, which extends over Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Despite the stylistic differences, there is a basic structure to changes and positions, with the cueca all types can be danced. DC is also toying with the handkerchief. In the Bolivian plateau, the cueca "Viva mi patria Bolivia" is seen as the unofficial national anthem.

Related dances

A close relationship, the Peruvian Marinera with the cueca, which was in Peru to La Chilena Salpeter 1879, and was renamed in Marinera from then because of the war against Chile.

Weblink

  • Videos and photos of the cueca Paceña, Tarijeña, Chapaca
  • Latin American Dancing
  • Culture (Chile)
  • Culture ( Bolivia)
Partner dance Cochabamba
209013
de