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.
Caral is the oldest civilization in the Americas, having developed almost simultaneously with the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China. [more...]
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