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Culture, Arts & Traditions in Peru
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Location:
Lima, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Junín, Ica, Cuzco
Date: May 3
This festival, which is widespread in
the highlands, is organized by the members of each community
who decorate their respective crosses and prepare then for
the procession to neighboring churches.
The celebration is linked to giving thanks for bountiful harvests,
a custom maintained by peasant farmers since the pre-Hispanic
era.
The festival often features folk music shows involving danzantes
de tijeras (scissors dancers). In ancient times, the danzaq
or scissors dancers would perform their daring feats on top
of the church belltowers.
Even today, the dancers strive to outdo each other, performing
extraordinary feats of derring-do.
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