LA DANZA DE LOS NEGRITOS

THE FESTIVIDAD OF THE NEGRITOS
THE DANCE OF THE NEGRITOS

Their beginnings are lost in the years of the colony, when the color men were brought to Peru from Cafre and other towns of Africa, for the works in the properties, the mining and the convents.

It is very important to indicate to the Decree promulgated by Ramon Castile, on the freedom of the black, the 13 of December of 1854.

As of this date, conjugating with the birth of the Boy Díos, the brotherhoods; name that comes from the origin place from where was brought the slaves, organized with many limitations in the properties, made their appearance in the streets. The dancers to are afro of the big drum, visited the births and the churches. There they danced and they drank. The owners of the births in compensate invited guarapo, shacta and years to them later locro. Thus they did it in the successive years and this way one institutionalized the dance and Dance of the Negritos.

With running of the years the color men were exterminating themselves, reason why they soon had to be replaced by the mestizos and by the targets. Like the dance he was of the negritos, these had to make masks.

Aside from this dances that are made in the urban zone, other dances and festividades exist that are made and celebrated in the towns that are in the environs of Huácar.

Between these we have:

The dance of the Jija Guancas de Raccha, is a dance similar to a battle of mosqueteros.
The dance of Atogg Alcalode and Mama Rayhuana de Caracalla (it dances of the food).
Chuncho, dance of Acobambilla
Chumpe, dance of Cochatama
The Avelinos de Angasmarca
The captain of Añay