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Danza de la Flores

Flower Dance

Esculturas Bronzo
2010

Description

The Danza de las Flores (Flower Dance) is a tradional dance of the village of Tegueste. The Dance consists of arches adorned with flowers and ribbons with different shades attached to a pole. At the top it has a plume of flowers as if it were a crown. Around it the dancers dance the tajaraste to the sound of the drum and the castanets. It is performed by six to twelve dancers, always in even numbers, dressed in white with a feathered plume hat and, on the back, two wide silk bands of different colours, knotted and hanging from the sides.

The sculpture group constists of a drummer, a man holding the pole with the plume of flowers, and a woman with an flower-and-ribbon arch attached to the pole.

Tegueste - Danza de la Flores

Inscription(s)

"DANZA DE LAS FLORES"

Referente ancestral de la cultura popular teguestera
Inaugurado el 28 de noviembre de 2010,
siendo alcalde de Tegueste
José Manuel Molina Hernández

Autor: ESCULTURAS BRONZO

"Flower Dance"

Ancestral reference of the popular culture of Tegueste
Inaugurated on 28 November 2010,
being the mayor of Tegueste
José Manuel Molina Hernández

Sculptor: Esculturas Bronzo

Sculptor

Esculturas Bronzo, sculptor workshop and foundry of the sculptors Evelina Martín Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez de Armas (both since 1985) and Ventura Alemán Gutiérrez (since 1994) (Website - see also the foundry Bronzo).

Sources & Information

BienMeSabe, Tegueste homenajeará la Danza de las Flores, una de las tradiciones más importantes de la Villa.

Locatie (N 28°31'17" - W 16°20'15") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca691; Photograph: 3 February 2020
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