Cuetzalan, Puebla the municipal center of a large number of Nahua villages. This gallery has many pictures from market day and the Festival in October. Home - Group page - The collection - Bobs Top-11 - cool Textiles - Comments © 2003 Bob Freund All Rights Reserved

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Quetzal dancers are the most famous traditional dancers from Cuetzalan.

Other dancers accompany the Saint to the church. When the video is installed, you will be amazed at the number of different dancers that participate. Notice the flute and small drum which in this case id the music they dance to.

A Volador, a very traditional dance, the eagles fly from a giant pole, there is great symbolic meaning. Most villages in the Sierra de Puebla have thier own Voladaores.

A composite of scenes from festival. Notice the different masks and costumes, only men dance. Sometimes they dress as women.

Composite of scenes from festival, the dancers from different areas all bring their own music and they all dance and play at the same time. The cacophony of sounds fills the air, your eyes can hardly stay focused there is so much movement and color.