Pujllay is Quechua for "play". This is the name of a traditional festival held in central Andes; in Bolivia, it is held in Tarabuco, Sucre. The word "play" refers to the clouds or the blossoms "playing" in the winds of the end of the rainy season and thus it implies harvesting time. In Bolivia, t...
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Las Imillitas interpret CAPORALES, a joyful Carnival dance from Bolivia. They perform to support the Toronto Bolivia Solidarity event held on April 5, 2008, to show the wide world support for the process of change in their home country: Bolivia.Celebrating the courageous majorities in Bolivia.Jal...
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The imponent dance "Incas" performed by LLAJTAYMANTA and danced by KORY WAYNAS bring us to the Inca Empire in which Indigenous peoples lived by respecting 3 fundamental principles as expressed by "Ama Sua, AmaAma Lulla" (Don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t be lazy).KORY WAYNAS is memb...
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Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy nació en Somoto, Madriz (Nicaragua), el 19 de febrero de 1945.Es uno de los más importantes compositores e interpretes nicaragüenses. Participó activamente en el período de gobierno sandinista (1979 - 1990) con responsabilidades en él. S...
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The Kullawada is a Bolivian dance that originates in the lake Titicaca region among the the highlands of the country. This is a traditional dance for alpaca and sheep wool weavers. The dancers wear colorful, elaborately decorated costumes for the dance symbolizing social class to which weavers an...
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El 21 de mayo del 2007, en su visita a su nietito y nietitas en el Canadá, Antonio Saavedra Crespo (el Toño) nos cantó a capella el tango "El Sueño del Pibe".Este video es un homenaje y celebración a su vida de ser humano noble, humilde, valiente y, sobre todo, lleno de a...
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Llajtaymanta and Kory Waynas performed together in Montreal, 2006, showing the immensely rich Bolivian culture. This piece is the very popular rhythm Caporales, interpreted by the renokwned artistic group Llajtaymanta and danced by the artistic troupe Kory Waynas (Golden Youth), members of the Bo...
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On Friday May 2, 2008, the Bolivian community in Ottawa and friends from different nationalities got together to express their solidarity with Bolivian majorities and denounce the illegal Referendum that took place on May 4, 2008, in Santa Cruz.After gathering in the lobby of the Bolivian Embassy...
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Tinku is a form of ritual conflict practiced by Indigenous Peoples in the Andean region. In a local kinship system people are divided to two halves or moieties, which have unequal status. These two halves represent the cosmogony of Andean cultures about the makeup of the Universe: the union (or e...
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The Morenada is a traditional dance in the Bolivian carnival and originates in Oruro. It is inspired in the sufferings of the African slaves brought to Bolivia in order to work in the silver mines of Potosí. The enormous tongue of the dark masks is ment to represent the physical state of the...
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