Culture,
Arts and Traditions in Peru
Peruvian Dances : Vals Criollo
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This dance has its participants holding hands in a half-embrace,
performing intertwined steps in a style recreated by Lima
inhabitants from the Viennese waltzes.
The Creole variation originated in the nineteenth century
and spread to the urban middle class as a synthesis of the
romantic nostalgia of the criollo class for the old Lima that
was fast changing.
Instruments used to accompany the dance include the guitar
and the cajon.
