cueca
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cueca
- Viewers were shown the real-life mothers or wives of victims of human rights abuses; for example, female relatives of the dead or the disappeared were seen dancing a haunting cueca, the national dance of women alone.
- dancing the cueca
Examples
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An excellent example of this breakdown in an original composition is the "Cueca Variations for Three Guitars" by Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (Schott Music Publishers, 1985).
Academic text (1996) -
When they dropped their bombs, I danced the cueca.
Fiction book (1999) -
Senora Rosa dancing the cueca.
Fiction book (1999) -
The composer created a series of forty-four graded eight-bar variations on the cueca
Academic text (1996) -
During the festival, the dancers performed the lively cueca while the audience clapped along.
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As the music played, couples elegantly twirled and spun to the rhythm of the cueca.
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Every year, the town hosts a competition where participants showcase their best cueca moves.
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cueca names a traditional Chilean folk dance. It comes from Chilean Spanish and probably from an older local word like cueco that meant a lively dance or even a bird, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of cueca as Chile's lively 'dance' at festivals.