Jan 25 2012

White Ballet Shoes

Leo was sitting in the bus, in the left seat in the back row, looking absently out the window when the vehicle stopped to gently come to a stop. Unconsciously changed his point of view, looking without thinking of travelers who came up and introduced more or less quickly in the little machine bonometro verification. A worker from the East, tall and blond, with blue-white plaster monkeys, a South American home, low and dark, with skinny jeans and big breasts, a local office with a mustache (   The shoe is one piece of fashion's most historic and today many of them are real works of art and collector. The first white ballet shoes had no design, as were the simplest and most were created in order to protect the feet from cold and the rocks. Already in the seventeenth century in Europe the wearing shoes became a seal of nobility and soon began to create different designs. He had bought days earlier in Tenerife. And that is to start in the show have to stomp, and in doing so .. In the shoe store casual shoes are original designs that can easily match any outfit and look picture perfect, casual shoes may be leather, suede, synthetic patent leather tip, or as you prefer them will always be a model that is ideal for your personality and taste. It is important to pay close attention to this detail men and that girls are given to take a look at your shoes looks great and never bring unpolished shoes or abused give a bad image to your person. This was a popular saying that as a child heard people pronounce my oldest land, but it understood, not to refer to our countrymen were the most cunning, restless or spread, but to highlight the excellence, dynamism, color, joy and beauty of the beautiful Cajabamba Devils Dance, folk expression that has become traditional in this land Norandinian. Year after year the tradition this dance makes delirious with excitement and sundry that they will enjoy the Provincial Fair in October, which is celebrated for eight days from the first Friday until the second Sunday of the month, in honor of Virgin of the Rosary Patron of the city. The motley crowd follows them from street to street to admire the rage, skill and beauty of his fiery dance to seafaring and huaynos played by the excellent band of musicians enliven the party. For a whole week without rest these dancers perform dances daily between seafaring 21, leaks and huaynos, making an enviable waste of physical and everywhere showing agility, dexterity, coordination, grace and dominion in the stomping and heel tip ¨ ¨ that accompanied a somewhat bouncy step has become traditional, is a form of its own, very cajabambina, dancing the northern maritime bright. No citizen cajabambino, with rare exceptions, this dance has not danced at least once in their life, because every young want to belong to it. The Devils Dance is the most rich folklore of this land, of a religious dance that dates back to colonial times. In this regard Sabogal Dieguez Jose, the great painter cajabambino and current indigenous representative, says in his book ¨ Peruvian imagery loft °, which represents the transformation of the archangel Lucifer into a demon, because they rebelled against God, for this Devil's luxurious clothing cajabambino look the same as the archangels of colonial imagery consists of blouse, skirt, pants to the average height of the tap, rectangular scarf of a vertex depends on the dancer's head and extends on the back, another small scarf worn on the left hand clutching the bouquet of flowers and sprat metal 60 inches long, embroidered belt which girds the waist of the blouse, white shoes and espuelines metallic whip, whip whip or ¨ ¨ in the right hand and an angelic type traditional mask over his head, with the addition of horns to represent him as the devil or demon. It is not known since the year has been practicing this dance, there are several hypotheses about, the most serious, consistent and credible Sabogal holding the painter. Either way, the truth is that was introduced during colonial times in different towns of the northern highlands of Peru as Cajabamba Tayabamba, San Marcos, Ichocán, in some of these places the dance evolved very little, being in Cajabamba where to develop and refine more, and with the passing of the years in Cajabamba were concocting ever more luxurious dresses of silk fabrics, always looking for the contrast between two colors and hand embroidery with beautifully colored silk threads all parts clothing described above, being decorated with a profusion of sequins, beads, pearls, colored stones and finishing the edges of each piece of clothing with gold or silver flecaduras. Always excelled in this craft good taste, refinement and art of the best seamstresses cajabambinas, in past decades were distinguished artisans Elia Valera, the sisters Ponciano, Leonila Alcarraz, Elisa and Grimaldina Montano, Trinidad Rodriguez, Lucila Zanoni, Mercedes Castro Johanson, Ofelia Rubio Cuadra and Miss Sophia Sisniega. At present highlights the ladies Alayo Arevalo Amparo, Dora Rodriguez Caballero, Barnabite Rojas Vargas and Bertha Moreno Jara. Since the late nineteenth century (1,890) and early twentieth century to 1.930 grotesque masks worn by the dancers were transformed into angelic-type masks that are used today, with ram's horns decorated with rhinestones often colored eyes glass, ears and teeth of brass, leaving small holes at the bottom of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. These masks are manufactured following the ancient technique called plaster is to form a clay mold of the measures it takes for the head of the dancer; on this mold are placing layers of calico attached with glue on one another, on the last layer that can be five or six, apply caulk base made of white powder and water hake glue, which when dried, sanded and polished enamel is then given, giving the appearance of a rosy complexion and black paint applied or blond hair. The initiator of this type of mask was the craftsman Don Pablo Moreno Fernández cajabambino known by the pseudonym Pablazo ¨ ¨ by his great stature, continuing with this craft his son Manuel Moreno Medrano and now the artists Carlos Vargas Paredes, Fernando Mantilla Rodriguez Manuel Urbina Arroyo, Blas Bocanegra Hugo and others. The whips, whips or ¨ ¨ whose twisted whips leather is a work of art cajabambina harness with silver ornaments on the upper end of the whip and wooden handle. In previous decades the craft artisans highlighted saddlers: Matthias and Pedro Castillo Sabogal, father and uncle of the painter José Sabogal respectively Nicasio Pajares, Francisco Lezama, Zoilo Market Cabanillas, Fermin Mirror, Mirror continuing his son Leoncio Figueroa and at present its grandchildren Alexander and Theodore Iparraguirre Mirror, as well as Mr. Elmer Baltodano Joy together with their children. After participating Devils Dance Cajabamba in the city of Lima, in the Sesquicentennial celebration of National Independence in 1.971, a group of people who love culture and folklore of Cajabamba, founded the Association Cajabamba Devils Dance the 10th of September 1.972, the anniversary of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, grouping all the dancers and dance friends, in the form of a partnership with statute and regulations themselves, in order to defend, cultivate, promote and stimulate cajabambino folklore in its authenticity and originality, especially the dance with her Devils and the Dance of the Gala, formed by children who are the seed of the Dance of Devils. This association is recognized by the Cajamarca subsidiary of the National Institute of Culture School of Folklore Jose Maria Arguedas National Institute of Culture in Lima and the INDECOPI to protect intellectual property and art of this beautiful dance. Be dedicated to the