Aprendiendo a danzar: el caso del colectivo coreográfico los danzantes del cerrillo

Abstract

The fundamental reason of this work is to investigate the forms of transmission of the Knowledge as persistence of tradition in the popular festival. In this case, the studied tradition are the dance forms associated with traditional music within of the Black and White Carnival of Pasto, one of the most emblematic popular festivals of Colombia and – more concretely – the case of the staging that he did of them the Choreographic Collective Los Danzantes del Cerrillo for the 2018 event. The object of study was observed seeking to find the traits that can be assumed as tradition and that still remain in the party within the particular categories of aesthetics dance and its logical connection with music, but focusing in particular on the how these characteristic features remain and are transmitted today from a past that validates them as part of these manifestations