Exposition · La Montaña de Guerrero

Xtá Ratsá

When a dance holds a people’s memory

Seven rooms in sequence. Each is walked slide by slide: first the words, then photographs from the field archive.

Enter the exposition

Photograph © Manne Doez

The walk

Seven thresholds. Walk down the mountain: each room is a photograph that opens.

  1. 00 Prologue Xtá Ratsá: when a dance holds a people’s memory. 6 slides Enter
  2. 01 The thought of the Mè'phàà people Before the dance, the territory that made it possible. 12 slides Enter
  3. 02 Community and the continuity of culture Knowledge lives because the community shares it. 12 slides Enter
  4. 03 Rehearsals and the transmission of the dance Before the celebration, learning in community. 11 slides Enter
  5. 04 The hands that hold memory Celebration is born from shared work. 11 slides Enter
  6. 05 The Xtá Ratsá dance A dance that still gives meaning to the present. 11 slides Enter
  7. 06 The territory changes, the community responds To care for the territory is to care for memory. 12 slides Enter

Field records

Two rooms keep the source material: the first Xtá Ratsá rehearsal and the interview with Maestro Abertano.