Room 3
Rehearsals and the transmission of the dance
Before it becomes celebration, the dance begins as learning.
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Rehearsals and the transmission of the dance
Each rehearsal is a space where elders share with girls, boys, and young people a way of understanding the world.
Rehearsals and the transmission of the dance
Here it is not only movements that are learned.
One learns to listen, to live together, to respect, and to walk with the community.
Music, the body, and being together transmit teachings that can only be understood by living them.
Rehearsals and the transmission of the dance
Each step strengthens the bond between generations.
Each rehearsal remembers that memory is also transmitted through the body.
Xtá Ratsá rehearsal in the school courtyard of Laguna Seca.
Xtá Ratsá is learned by living it.
Children and youth during the Xtá Ratsá rehearsal.
The body also holds memory.
Collective practice of the Xtá Ratsá dance in Laguna Seca.
Each generation receives the knowledge in order to share it again.
Rehearsals and the transmission of the dance
Mè'phàà youth show that memory keeps walking with the present.