This dance called Dance of the Old Men is a Purpecha dance hundreds of years old. Today the Purpecha people perform it with modern instruments bass, guitar and fiddle (sometimes mandolin). The dancers are boys and young men usually from the same family. They wear masks and costume and special clapping wood shoes. The dancers perform with great vigor leaping about and in all is extremely funny. There is some kind of message here as well in that the elderly still have life and spirit in them. This is but one sample of folk dances from around Lake Patzcuaro in the Michoacan highlands of central Mexico.
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