Inside the Aymara and Quechua comunities, parties have kept their ritual meaning. Music and dancing do not only represent the solidarity of the Indigenous Cultures with its land, but also express the union of the community. Particularly you could see that in the Sikuris groups, complemented by instruments of different sizes. The interpretation requires a perfect coordination.

The native dances are a very important part in the ceremonies in which, even nowdays, the mother earth is worshiped. In all the Andean zone, although in diverse formes, you find various rituals; however, the meaning is the same: Fertility rituals and gratitude sacrifices (Ch´alla) to the Pachamama. These dances are: the Mollos, Inca Dance, Mokolulu, Monseñada, Chiriwana, Thanthas, Waka-waka, Kena-kena and Auki-auki.

Dance is an activity practiced by man, that was born by the necesity that this one had, of expressing through movement.

It is being spoken like spiritual motives characterizad by fear, petitions or gratitudes to the divinity; of erotic or afective reason; of the warrior reason to scare the enemy and self excite himself to attack in battle, or the reason leagued to the crop celebration, etc.

All this explains why dancing involves a message, it´s significant and has a spìritual content besides the esthetic.

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