The Marinera

performed at the

ANCPCPP National Show

Mamacona- Pachamac/Lima, Peru   April 13-20, 1997
Judge: Felipe Thorndyke   Sponsered by the ANCPCPP

La Marinera

Fue Abelardo Gamarra "El Tunante" quien bautizo como Marinera a esta danza mestiza de reminiscencias y ancestros hispanos y negros y algo de la impronta indigena. Es el baile de cortejo, del enamoramiento, en el que el hombre insiste a pesar de los coquetos desplantes femeninos. Elegante y compleja, es una de esas raras danzas donde la mujer marca el ritmo y lluva a la pareja. Los instrumentos asociados a ella son la guitarra española, el cajon criollo y la quijada de burro africana.


The Marinera

It was Abelard Gamarra, "The Rascal" who baptized as Marinera this Mestizo dance of reminences and Spanish and black ancestors and even the natives. It is a dance of courtship, of love where the man insists despite his partner's coquettish feminine wiles. Elegant and complex, it is one of the rare dances where the woman marks the rhythm and leads her partner. Instruments associated with it are the Spanish guitar, the Creole box and the African jawbone of an ass.

 

The exerpt to the left comes from the International Magazine of Peru, El Dorado-PromPerü - the July-September, 1996 issue.


PK Ducado performing the Marinera, above, with 10 year old son of Pedro Koechlin and professional Marinera dancer, in purple. Pedro's son also rode the first place Best Gait Gelding at this National show. Baca says, "this young man is an excellent young horseman!"
 
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Photos are by Alejandro Photography in Lima, Peru 4-15-97