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HIGHLAND REGION (THE ANDES)

Danza de tijeras
It is a dance in which culture and tradition are showed and expressed through the dancing and singing. It also shows abilities, Andean man habits with a character “Sacred – Ritual’’ to the Andean divinities: Hills (Apus – Wamanis), Land (Mama Pacha), stars (Inti, Quilla, Joillor), farm works of the community and Religious Feast.

Since the ancestors, the dancers perform the Great Ceremonial Essay in Easter; that is the secret understanding of the Andean world with its Apus Wamanis; on Thursdays and Friday, They commemorate dead Christ, The Dancers of Scissors go to the squares and towns to dance to get in contact with the Apus, also called cultural resistance that is born in Spanish reply in 1565, named TAKY ONQOY (DYING SONG). In those days, Good Friday is taken advantage by older teachers to teach their disciples. At the end of sixties of the XX century, the dance became in artistic symbol cultural heritage of Peru. In this way, the cultural and local expression became in one of the most significant expressions of the Andean culture. It is performed with violin and harp music and a sort of separated thin metal plate that is similar to a scissor.
Sara Hallmay
Tinta District Dance, Qanchis Province, Cusco Department. Agricultural character dance performed through activities that carry out the first and second hilling around plants of the Maize. This activity is carried out as preview of Christmas celebrations, in view of that celebration is a custom that the hilling around the maize is profitable.

And also our ancestors always practiced this custom in Tinta area where the young farmers revealed their physical qualities at the moment of hilling around plants to the sound of the Bandurrias (type of mandolin) and the reed flute. During that activity, men use as blanching tool “The Kuti’’ which is stick mattock with iron coulter and women spread flowers in all the ground, as a sign of flowering. After finishing the task, they drink the sacred beverage known as CHICHA and then express all their rejoicing and satisfaction for finishing the farm work. As regards clothes, it is typical of Tinta district where threads of different colors are used for the embroidery as well as iconographies of the area made up by the Maquinascas who are the teachers in the making up of these dresses.
Huaylash Antiguo
This dance develops in the south of Mantaro Valley. Its Quechua meaning is “Festivity’’. Our ancestor (those who belonged to Wanca culture) showed respect for the Land (Mama pacha) in order to thank for the fruits that they received to survive.

It is the courtship to the partner gallantry imitating the Chihuaco (Zorzal) in a farm environment; the choreography consists of potato sowing, cultivation and harvest movements and other farm work, the costume is from the small farm and barefoot.

In some moment, men (Hualars) perform the “takanacuy’’; that is, they fight over the most attractive woman (wambla), for the wink of the flirtatious bride, for becoming in the enviable popular dance group or for the encounter on the road of two dancer gangs.
   
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