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COAST REGION

Festejo
It is an erotic and festive dance without holding on to one’s partner about pelvic – ventral movement. In Chincha and Cañete, it is called “Waist Dance or much waist movement’’. At the same time, it seems to be the oldest dance of the expressions in black people originating other dances (Alcatraz, Inga, Lando, Lavanderas.)
Lando
It is a typical rhythm of the Peruvian coast and belongs to the Negro folklore. Its complex rhythm is accompanied by the Peruvian Cajon and the Creole guitar bass string.

It is the evolution of the Lundu that was an Angolan Dance of wedding ceremony brought by the Negros slaves and in which a pantomime of the popular performance was relived finishing with a knock from pelvis against pelvis. Later it became popular with the name of Lundero in the village of Santiago de Miraflores of Saña, Lambayeque Province; after that the Tondero appeared. Meanwhile, it evolved in Lima giving rise to the Zamacueca and was baptized again as Marinera by Abelardo Gamarra in 1879.
Alcatraz
It comes from Festejo genre, it is danced in Lima and Ica departments. It is also an erotic and festive dance without holding on to one’s partner. The man with a lit candle tries to light the “Cucuruchu’’ (bottom), while the woman tries to put out with hip movements.

The traditional Alcatraz was performed in time to turns, Quijada de Burro, Guitars, drums and bugle. “Al son de los tambores encenderás tu vela a que no me quemas el Alcatraz’’. (To the sound of the drums, you will light your candle, and you would not burn el Alcatraz’’.
   
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