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text and photos by roylu.
espacio cultural origines, sucre, bolivia
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origines
vol 1 no 7
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dance from tarabuco with spurred men's sandals that would would put any american cowboy's boots to shame.
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1 today, at sucre. the latest of the names of this city. the three previous being; charcas, la plata and chuquisaca.
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dance from ururu. diablada. the devil dance. the red devil with the golden saint michael the archangel.
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2 a much storied city, as you would imagine of something with three names.
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dance from tarija. wine country.
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3 but today, tonight there are more stories than just three and not just of the city but of the whole country nay a whole empire two empires entwined traversing the breadth of the andean imagination and the castillan imperium.
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dance from the carnaval of la paz. the clown ďŹ gures are called pepino. the carnaval begins and ends with the pepino's rebirth and death.
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4 the stories not in words, more than words sounds music movement colors swirling twirling swaying dance dance dance
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dance from potosi. the great silver mines of the spanish empire.
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5 in the face of which, in the presence of whom we are mute struck dumb
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dance from potosi. the exuberance of the dance contrasts with the exhaustion of the miners.
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6 but enlivened striving to capture the fleeting moment the dazzling light the impenetrable dark the coy shadows
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baile de los caporales. also from the department of la paz. a dance known internationally and very popular, especially among the young, internally.
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7 knowing that technology is the handmaiden of memory knowing that the byte is not the bite we take the moment we swallow to fullness to emptiness returning to the original void.
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african in inspiration, the 'caporal' is a spanish military guard, overseer of african slaves. he wore boots and brandished a whip.
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the moment, a sequence, the caporales in ight.
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the caporal is not only popular in bolivia, but also in argentina, chile and peru.
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the women can also be caporales. but their movements are not nearly as ighty as that of the men.
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this dance involves a lot of jumping and throwing up one's boots to shoulder level.
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8 of the night but tonight of dream of dance of dream of dance
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