Ballet Macehuatl - Acto Oficial del Día Nacional

Nicaragua celebrates National Pavilion Day at Shanghai Expo

14:15, September 15, 2010






Artists from Nicaragua perform during a ceremony marking the National Pavilion Day of the Republic of Nicaragua in the Shanghai World Expo Park in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 14, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Baishun)

Nicaragua celebrated its National Pavilion Day Tuesday at the Shanghai World Expo with a renewed spirit to boost the development of its trade, handicrafts and tourism, authorities said.

Emilio Zambrana, spokesman for the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture, told Xinhua on Tuesday that Nicaragua was aimed at showcasing its cultural and national identity at the Expo in boosting trade, culture and tourism ties between China and other countries.

Celebrations included a performance of the folklore ballet "Macehualt," in which the typical Nicaraguan culture was shown.

The Expo "offers Nicaragua an opportunity to achieve a cultural exchange with this large eastern culture during the celebration of Nicaragua's National Pavilion Day," said Zambrano.

The Nicaragua Pavilion also features a variety of its tourism attractions and export products such as rum, coffee and tobacco.

The Shanghai Expo, with the theme of "Better City, Better Life," opened on May 1 and will end on Oct. 31. Over 240 countries and regions are participating in the Shanghai Expo.Source: Xinhua

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/7141049.html

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Ballet Macehuatl - Acto Oficial del Día Nacional

Evento cultural lleno de música, danzas folclóricas.

El Ballet Folklórico Macehuatl, Alejandro Cuadra (qepd), bajo la dirección de René Jaime Orozco, muestra canciones y danzas de nicaragüenses representativas de las regiones del norte y el Pacífico del país, realizando bailes populares rurales, rescatando las danzas más importantes de Nicaragua, como verdaderos representantes de la tradición folklórica. La línea del Ballet Folklórico Macehuatl es folklore y su propuesta artística es "preservar las tradiciones nicaragüenses y proyectarlas de una manera hermosa". Su repertorio incluye canciones y danzas tales como: El Güegüense, Aquella Indita, La Culebrita blanca, Palomita Güasiruca, Danza del mestizaje, Flor de mi colina, Fiesta de patio, El viejo y la vieja, El Solar de Monimbó, Polkas y Mazurcas y Palo de Mayo

The Macehuatl Folkloric Ballet, Alejandro Cuadra (RIP), under the direction of René Jaime Orozco, shows Nicaraguan tunes and dances by travelling the northern and Pacific regions of the country, performing rural folk dances, rescuing the most important dances of Nicaragua, to show and prove themselves as true representatives of the Folk tradition. The line of the Macehuatl Folkloric Ballet is Folklore and its artistic proposal is “to preserve Nicaraguan traditions and project them in a beautiful way". Their repertoire includes tunes and dances such as: The Güegüense, Aquella indita , La culebrita blanca, Palomita Güasiruca, Danza del mestizaje, Flor de mi colina, Fiesta de patio, El Viejo y la vieja, El Solar de Monimbó, Polkas y Mazurkas y Palo de Mayo.

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