History Dancers by Jose Cabezas
By (author): Jose Cabezas
Title: History Dancers
Subtitle: Surviving over time
Blurb/Shorttext:
Los Historiantes, with more than 300 years old, is a tradition born from the hybridization between two cultures; the encounter of two worlds generated new traditions that combined the ability of the conqueror to subdue the conquered through art and religion and the resistance of the conquered to subvert these new impositions through creativity and practicality, and thus continue praying to the old gods camouflaged in the wooden carcasses of the catholic saints.
This work has tried to be a visual investigation of several years on the tradition of the dance of Los Historiantes in El Salvador, a tradition cemented in the people who practice it, their families and relatives and that despite dictatorships, wars, natural phenomena and plagues, remain in force and adapting to new times to continue dancing.
Dancing for the Faith, a form of Faith and constancy to continue perpetuating the oral and written history of this tradition that develops, as the Salvadoran writer Ricardo Lindo says, through the "hand copy of notebooks until they wear out ... (of the prose and verse recited by the dancers to the saints and that )... have been inherited by generations and centuries, constituting an artistic and ritual legacy at the same time".
ISBN: 978-87-7620-332-0
Book language: English
Publishing house: Snap Collective
Website: www.snap-collective.com
Editorial Assistant: Natalia Manole
Designer: Tea Jagodic
Published on: 08/06/2024
Category: Art
Price (€): 89
Keywords: tradition, dance, El Salvador, identity