Masters of Dance Tecuan
Alicio Palacios. The music of joy

By Oscar Cortes Palma

In the last houses that can be seen from the center of the small town of Coatetelco, almost on the top of a hill lives Alicio Don Palacios born in 1950, who began dancing dance Tecuan in the early eighties, encouraged by Don Lauro Juárez.

Palacios Alicio we talked Don Lauro Juárez Pineda was the musician and dance teacher Tecuan Coatetelco for 40 years and gave great difusión.Incluso for many years, Mr. Lauro was to teach Tecuanes groups from other villages, including highlighting Ocotepec, Morelos.

Don Alicio danced carrying a stuffed fox, as this is the costume of the character called Old Creeping who played, but did not attach much importance to the dance because farm work kept him busy.

However, things changed when his friend Don Lauro before dying entrusted a mission, he said, "Friend, do not go to drop dance though not know playing with time you will learn, here I give a flute and a drum, nothing but the flute must moisten dry, because it does not sound the same. "

It was the late eighties, when he died of illness Pineda Lauro Juárez, about 75 years old.

Two months later, Mr. Alicio started practicing the sound and although not always stuck out was not discouraged and continued to practice. Aided by a video of his friend playing 12 sounds of dance, looking not remember when some are. Such has been its commitment Alicio Don is currently an excellent musician and teacher of dance Tecuan. Just hear him play to be transported to another world.

Alicio Don has over twenty years as a musician and manager of the dance and its not easy work because it has the responsibility to walk purchasing costumes, masks, etc.. It also has the task of going to call participants to juntarlos.Sale your home around 5pm and returns as at 10 hours. Don Alicio nobody pays you for doing this, do it for the hell of it, because he likes the "mitoteria", you could even say that it is not very faithful to the religion that organizes the festivities where there Tecuanes, and like Don Lauro also continued going to rehearse the dance village Ocotepec.

Even Don Alicioestá taking steps to ensure the continuity of the dance so you are teaching your child dialogues, choreography and dance music Tecuan.Alicio Don says: "The dance is joyful, many participate, dance to been there for a long time nothing is changing people do, some die and others take their place, dance is for fun."

The dance group is composed mostly of boys and young men, they will not allow women to be Tecuanes because it is considered a rather abrupt and aggressive dance.

The dance is danced Tecuan June 24 festivities in St. John the Baptist, and the last Sunday of January to 2 February at the festivities of the Virgin of the latter Candelaria.Para festival, the dancing going Tecuanes accompanying the procession responsible for fetching the virgin procession begins in Tetecala Candelaria.La from 5 in the morning and ends at 9am on Coatetelco for 4 hours away residents travel more than 9 miles away separates a village otro.Don Alicio has a will of iron because the party last year while he was sick, kept his promise.

© Oscar Cortes Palma, Historian and Researcher of Jaguar dances.

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