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La Gigantona
by NicaMom
La Gigantona by Grupo Tradicional De León
Listen to the whole track. After the drumming the story begins, really.
Anyone who has spent anytime in Nicaragua will be familiar with this tune. Street performers from Granada to Leon delight visitors nightly with the theatre of La Gigantona
The gigantona dance origins are in colonial times, developed in an between two cultures: the Spanish and Indian dance is taken from the Spaniards when they come to conquer Nicaragua. The Spaniards brought the dance of the Cabezudos which consisted of dancing women and the Spanish settler who claimed the honor and dignity of the Spanish crown.
The Indians who were victims of abuse and humiliation by the Spaniards, their women raped, their wealth pillaged and their beliefs and customs trampled. They devised an expression of protest to the Spanish crown, and this is the dance of the Gigantona and The Dwarf El Cabezon.
The Gigantona represents the Spanish woman, dressed in colorful and lavish costumes, between 2.5-3 metres tall represent the power wielded by Spaniards over the Indians. The woman's towering size represents higher knowledge, beauty and splendor in the development of the state of the Spanish Crown. Its head was made from Jicaro initially, but over time other empty timber was used. The eyes and mouth are sometimes illuminated with a candle, which gives bright and colorful light.
The Dwarf El Cabezón represents the indigenous, whose small stature signifys the relationship to nature of aboriginal people, but his huge head is that the Indians despite submission imposed by the colonizers, is an intelligent being, able to grow as a person and develop their country. His head is still produced from bamboo. Dancing alongside the Gigantona, he ridicules the Spanish crown with its huge head movements sideways, forward and backward.
Translation from the spanish with Google Translate
http://www.ciag.org/opencms/nicaragua/page2.html
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