Researchers of the of the Tecuanes Dance Theater 

By Óscar Cortés Palma

In this blog, I will not only limit myself to a description of the dance of the Tecuan, but I will try later to explain its possible meaning, the life stories of some of the custodians of this tradition, and the repercussions of this dance In the villages that practice it.

 Unfortunately, there are very few documents to analyze the traditional dance of Tecuan or its variants, so I relied on how little has been written on the subject.

I mainly assisted myself with the oral sources I gathered during the years 2010 to 2014; And since I believe that traditions are events of long and medium duration, I think that if they exist today, it is most likely that they have existed in many cases for decades in the villages where they are currently danced and even in Other villages, since the dance of the Tecuan describes the life of the hacienda and this form of life ceased to exist in the region after the agrarian distribution of the 1920s and 1930s.

In addition, in some towns the dialogues of the theatrical dance of the Tecuan are in Nahuatl hybrid language even though the population already uses the Spanish language like common language and they are difficult to understand the meaning of the parliaments.

Some of the written sources on which I have relied are: Elfego Adán's manuscript on the dance of Lato Tecuanes of Coatetelco. This is the oldest manuscript I know about the dialogues of this dance. There is another manuscript given by Fernando Horcasitas, who also started an investigation of the dance of the Tecuan nationwide. Unfortunately Fernando Horcasitas died in 1980, leaving his research unfinished, but without a doubt, he was a pioneer in the research of this dance of the Tecuan.

Another bibliographic source, which provides us with a lot of information, is entitled "The Dance of Tecuan" and was published by FONADAN - National Fund for the Development of Mexican Folk Dance - in the year 1975. In this work were recorded Careful manner the dialogues, the music and the choreography of the dance of the Tecuan of San Francisco Cuautzosco, Texcaltitlán, state of Mexico; In the 1970s.

© Óscar Cortés Palma Degree in History UNAM and Researcher of the Dance of the Tecuan of Morelos and the history of the town of Axochiapan.

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