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{{Infobox Music genre
{{Infobox dance
|name=Diablada
| title = Diablada
|bgcolor = red
| name =
| image = Carnaval de Oruro dia I (60).JPG
|color = white
| imagesize =
| stylistic_origins = [[Autos Sacramentales]] (''[[Ball de diables]]'' & ''[[Els sets pecats capitals]]'') and [[Inca mythology|Andean rituals]].
| alt =
| cultural_origins = [[Culture of Spain|Spanish]] and [[Aymara ethnic group|Aymara]] cultural mix in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].
| caption = A Diablada dance squad passing through the streets during the [[Carnaval virgen de la candelaria in peru| Carnival]] and [[Bolivia]].
| instruments = [[Guitar]], [[violin]], [[quijada]], [[cajita]], [[drums]], [[trumpets]], [[charango]], ''[[Siku (panpipe)|siku]]'', [[quena]], and more depending on regional variations.
| genre = [[Folk dance]]
| popularity = [[Bolivia]], Andean and parts of coastal [[Peru]], northern [[Chile]], and northern [[Argentina]].
| derivatives =
| signature =
| inventor = [[Pre-Columbian era|Pre-Columbian]] [[Andean bolivian, civilizations]]
|subgenrelist=List of Diablada genres
| year = 1500s
| subgenres = [[Diablada Puneña]], [[Son de los Diablos]], [[Diablada de Oruro]], [[Diablada in Chile]], etc.
| origin = [[Altiplano]] region, Bolivia, South America
| regional_scenes = [[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)]], [[Fiesta de la Tirana]], and [[Carnaval de Oruro]]
| other_topics = [[Andean music]]
[[File:Danzan san miguel 7 diablos.jpg|210px|center|border]]
<small>''Danza de los Diablicos'', depicting Saint Michael and seven demons. Image from ''Trujillo del Perú'' (1782 - 1785), a collection of drawings ordered by the Bishop of Trujillo, [[Baltasar Martínez y Compañón]], which offer an indispensable account of daily life in the Viceroyalty of Peru. The dancers play a [[guitar]], [[quijada]], and [[cajita]].
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The '''Diablada''', also known as the '''Danza de los Diablos''' ({{lang-en|Dance of the Devils}}), is an [[Andean civilizations|Andean]] [[folk dance]] performed in Bolivia the [[Altiplano]] region of South America, characterized by performers wearing masks and costumes representing the [[devil]] and other characters from [[Pre-Columbian era|pre-Columbian]] theology and mythology.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S2E3Q62l-lUC&dq=Diablada+Danza+de+Diablos&pg=PA63|page=63|title=Music-cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions|isbn=9782884491372|last1=Kartomi|first1=Margaret J.|last2=Blum|first2=Stephen|year=1994}}</ref><ref name="DRAE">{{cite web |url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=diablada |title=Diccionario de la Lengua Española&nbsp;– Vigésima segunda edición |author=Real Academia Española |author-link=Real Academia Española |year= 2001 |location=Madrid, Spain |language=es |trans-title=Spanish Language Dictionary - 22nd edition |access-date=30 November 2009 |quote=''Danza típica de la región de Oruro, en Bolivia, llamada así por la careta y el traje de diablo que usan los bailarines'' (Typical dance from the region of [[Oruro Department|Oruro]], in [[Bolivia]], called that way by the mask and devil suit worn by the dancers).}}</ref> combined with Spanish and Christian elements added during the [[Spanish Empire|colonial era]]. Many scholars have concluded that the dance is descended from the [[Llama llama]] dance in honor of the [[Uros|Uru]] god [[Tiw (god)|Tiw]],<ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=EN&cp=BO |title=Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Information related to Intangible Cultural Heritage |year=2001 |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |access-date=3 October 2009 |quote=The town of Oruro, situated at an altitude of 3,700 metres in the mountains of western Bolivia and once a pre-Columbian ceremonial site, was an important mining area in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Resettled by the Spanish in 1606, it continued to be a sacred site for the Uru people, who would often travel long distances to perform their rituals, especially for the principal Ito festival. The Spanish banned these ceremonies in the seventeenth century, but they continued under the guise of Christian liturgy: the Andean gods were concealed behind Christian icons and the Andean divinities became the Saints. The Ito festival was transformed into a Christian ritual, celebrated on Candlemas (2 February). The traditional llama llama or diablada in worship of the Uru god Tiw became the main dance at the Carnival of Oruro.}}</ref> and the [[Aymara people|Aymaran]] ritual to the demon [[Anchanchu]], both originating in pre-Columbian [[Bolivia]]<ref name="RubioZapata">{{cite journal |author=Rubio Zapata, Miguel |date=Fall 2007 |title=Diablos Danzantes en Puno, Perú |trans-title=Dancing devils in Puno, Peru |journal=ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America |volume=VII |issue=1 |pages=66–67 |url=http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/1005 |language=es |access-date=24 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401071207/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/1005 |archive-date=1 April 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Manzana2">{{cite interview|last=Morales Serruto|first=José|title=La diablada, manzana de la discordia en el altiplano <nowiki>[The ''Diablada'', the bone of contention in the Altiplano]</nowiki>|url=http://www.correoperu.com.pe/correo/nota.php?txtEdi_id=18&txtSecci_id=72&txtSecci_parent=&txtNota_id=106612|access-date=27 September 2009|publisher=[[Correo (Puno)|Correo]]|location=Puno, Peru|date=3 August 2009|language=es}}{{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
The '''Diablada''' or '''Danza de Diablos''' ({{lang-en|Dance of Devils}}) is a traditional [[South American]] [[dance]] that was created in the Andean [[Altiplano]] as a result of the introduction of the ''[[Autos Sacramentales]]'', a dramatic representation of the mystery of the [[Eucharist]], in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]] by missionaries from [[Spain]] in the XVI century.<ref name="Nicomedes">Santa Cruz, p. 285.</ref><ref name="Manzana">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=La diablada, manzana de la discordia en el altiplano | publisher=Correoperu.com| url=http://www.correoperu.com.pe/correo/nota.php?txtEdi_id=18&txtSecci_id=72&txtSecci_parent=&txtNota_id=106612| accessdate=2009-09-27}}</ref> The dance is a mixture of the Spaniard's theatrical presentations and Andean rituals such as the ''llama llama'' dance in honor of the [[Uru]] god [[Tiw]] and the [[Aymara]]n miner's ritual of the ''Danza del Anchanchu''.<ref name="UNESCO"/><ref name="Harvard"/> Practised throughout the [[Andes|Andean region]], the ''Diablada'' is an important part of the cultural festivities of the nations of [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], and [[Chile]]. The dance stands prominent during the [[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]] in Peru, the [[Carnaval de Oruro]] in Bolivia, and the [[Fiesta de la Tirana]] in Chile. However, other variations of the dance are also practiced in [[Venezuela]], [[Ecuador]], [[Panama]], and in various parts of Peru.


While the dance had been performed in the Andean region as early as the 1500s, its name originated in 1789 in [[Oruro, Bolivia]], where performers dressed like the devil in parades called ''Diabladas.'' The first organized Diablada group with defined music and choreography appeared in Bolivia in 1904.<ref name="DRAE" /><ref>http://www.carnavaldeoruroacfo.com/documentos/FORMULARIO%20DE%20CANDIDATURA.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091104051802/http://www.carnavaldeoruroacfo.com/documentos/FORMULARIO%20DE%20CANDIDATURA.pdf|date=2009-11-04}} Compilation of historians, anthropologists, researchers and folklorists about the Carnival of Oruro and La Diablada</ref> There is also some evidence of the dance originating among miners in [[Potosí|Potosi, Bolivia]],<ref name="ArancibiaAndrade">{{cite interview |last=Arancibia Andrade |first=Freddy |title=Investigador afirma que la diablada surgió en Potosí <nowiki>[Investigator affirms that the ''Diablada'' emerged in Potosí]</nowiki> |url=http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090820_006825/nota_253_864270.htm |language=es |location=La Paz, Bolivia |date=20 August 2009 |access-date=2 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904134937/http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090820_006825/nota_253_864270.htm |archive-date=4 September 2009 }}</ref> while regional dances in Peru and Chile may have also influenced the modern version.
The origin of the ''Diablada'' is a matter of dispute.<ref>{{cite web|title=In This Spat Between Bolivia and Peru, The Details Are in the Devils| publisher=The Wall Street Journal| url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125081309502848049.html| accessdate=2009-10-04}}</ref> The oldest ''Diablada'' recorded took place in [[1576]] with the native [[Lupaka]]s people of [[Juli]], a city nicknamed as the "[[Aymara]]n Rome" which is located near [[Lake Titicaca]] in the altiplano of present-day [[Puno Region|Puno]], Peru;<ref name="Manzana"/><ref name="Pasacalle">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Realizarán gran pasacalle en defensa de la diablada en Puno| publisher=Peru.com| url=http://www.peru.com/espectaculos/PORTADA20090818/50589/Realizaran-gran-pasacalle-en-defensa-de-la-diablada-en-Puno| accessdate=2009-09-27}}</ref> and from there it allegedly spread to other parts of the Spanish domain in the Americas.<ref name="Manzana"/> Nonetheless, it is also believed that the dance could have had its beginnings in the area of modern-day Bolivia, such as in the city of [[Potosí, Bolivia|Potosí]], back then a miner's settlement in the Viceroyalty of Peru, from where it later spread to [[Oruro]] and other parts of the Altiplano.<ref name="Nicomedes"/> Another proposal is that the dance originated in Oruro, and that it has [[Uros|Uru]] roots from the religious ritual of the "[[Ito Festival]]."<ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web | title=UNESCO Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage| publisher=UNESCO| url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?cp=BO| accessdate=2009-10-03}}</ref> During the evangelism of the natives, the missionaries instilled the Christian paradigm of good and evil by teaching them their theatrical dance which was a representation of the [[seven deadly sins]] that concluded with the victory of the [[angel]]s over the [[demon]]s (which is how the costumes of angels and demons became associated with the dance).<ref name="PunoMagico"/> Ultimately, the result was a fusion between Spanish and Aymaran culture in the altiplano as the original dance taught by the Jesuit missionaries adopted Andean elements.<ref name="PunoMagico">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Origen de la Diablada| publisher=Punomagico.com| url=http://www.punomagico.com/expresion%20origen%20de%20la%20diablada.html| accessdate=2009-09-27}}</ref><ref name="Potosi">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Investigador afirma que la diablada surgió en Potosí| publisher=La Razon.com| url=http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090820_006825/nota_253_864270.htm| accessdate=2009-10-02}}</ref>

The ''Diablada''' represents a mixture between Christianity and Aymara religion that goes as far back as [[1538]], where in the mines of [[Aullagas]] (in northern [[Potosí Department|Potosí]]) the natives adopted [[Christian]] religious figures and adapted them to their indigenous religious visions.<ref name="Potosi"/> The dance eventually became part of a series of Christian religious festivities, most prominently during the celebrations to the [[Virgin of Candelaria]] (also known as the [[Virgin of Socavón]]).<ref name="Potosi"/> These [[Christian]] rituals replaced the old [[Inca mythology|Andean beliefs and mythology]], and the festivities changed from honoring what were considered "pagan" gods to that of honoring Christian [[saint]]s and [[God in Christianity|God]]. Over the years, the ''Diablada'' has developed uniquely in various regions of South America, which has led to variations such as the [[Afro-Peruvian]] [[Son de los Diablos]], the [[Diablada Puneña]], and the [[Diablada of Oruro]].<ref name="Nicomedes2"/><ref>Frisancho Pineda, p. 38.</ref>


==History==
==History==
=== Pre-Columbian origins ===
{{Expand section|date=October 2009}}
[[File:Fiesta de los Collasuyos.jpg|thumb|alt=Ancient drawing of the ''Collasuyus''.|Depiction of a [[Collasuyu]] party in the 17th century book ''[[Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno]]'' of [[Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala]].]]
Bolivian historians claim that the Diablada originated in that country, and that Oruro should be named as its place of origin under the [[Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity]] policy promoted by [[UNESCO]]; Bolivia has also claimed that performances of the dance in other countries are [[cultural appropriation]].<ref name="LaPrensa1408092">{{cite news|date=14 August 2009|title=Perú dice que la diablada no es exclusiva de Bolivia|language=es|trans-title=Peru says that the ''Diablada'' is not exclusive of Bolivia|newspaper=[[La Prensa (La Paz)|La Prensa]]|publisher=Editores Asociados S.A.|location=La Paz, Bolivia|url=http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/14-08-09/noticias.php?nota=14_08_09_alfi5.php|access-date=10 December 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="DiablosDiabladas2">[[Diablada#refDiablosDiabladas|Echevers Tórrez 2009]]</ref> Bolivian historians currently maintain that the Diablada dates back 2000 years to the rituals of the [[Uros|Uru civilization]] dedicated to the mythological figure [[Tiw (god)|Tiw]], who protected caves, lakes, and rivers as places of shelter. The dance is believed to have originated as the ''[[Llama llama]]'' in the ancient settlement of Oruro, which was one of the major centers of the Uru civilization.<ref name="UNESCOformPP10-17" /><ref>[[Diablada#refGuamanPoma1615|Guaman Poma de Ayala 1615]], p.235.</ref> The dance includes references to animals that appear in Uru mythology such as ants, lizards, toads, and snakes.<ref name="MineTiw2">{{cite web|author=Claure Covarrubias, Javier|date=January 2009|title=El Tío de la mina|trans-title=The Uncle of the mine|url=http://www.islabahia.com/arenaycal/2009/156_enero/javier_claure_156.asp|access-date=13 January 2010|publisher=Arena y Cal, revista literaria y cultural divulgativa|location=Stockholm, Sweden|language=es}}</ref><ref name="UruMyth2">{{cite web|author=Ríos, Edwin|year=2009|title=Mitología andina de los urus|trans-title=Andean mythology of the Urus|url=http://www.micarnaval.net/mitologia.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224155130/http://www.micarnaval.net/mitologia.htm|archive-date=24 December 2009|access-date=13 January 2010|website=Mi Carnaval |language=es}}</ref><ref name="DiabladaOrigOruro2">{{cite web|author=Ríos, Edwin|year=2009|title=La Diablada originada en Oruro&nbsp;– Bolivia|trans-title=The ''Diablada'' originated in Oruro&nbsp;– Bolivia|url=http://www.micarnaval.net/origen_diablada.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815145701/http://www.micarnaval.net/origen_diablada.htm|archive-date=15 August 2009|access-date=13 January 2010|website=Mi Carnaval |language=es}}</ref> Bolivian anthropologist Milton Eyzaguirre adds that the ancient cultures of the Bolivian Andes practiced a death cult called ''cupay'', with that term eventually evolving into ''supay'' or the devil figure in the modern Diablada.<ref name="Pre-ColumbianUrus2">{{cite news|date=9 August 2009|title=La diablada orureña se remonta a la época de los Urus precoloniales|language=es|trans-title=The ''Diablada'' of Oruro goes back to the times of the Pre-Columbian Urus|newspaper=[[La Razón (La Paz)|La Razón]]|location=La Paz, Bolivia|url=http://co.wradiofm.com/nota.aspx?id=858474|access-date=9 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813192031/http://co.wradiofm.com/nota.aspx?id=858474|archive-date=13 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>


Due to [[syncretism]] caused by Spanish influence in later centuries, Tiw was eventually associated with the devil; Spanish authorities also outlawed several of the ancient traditions but incorporated others into Christian theology.<ref>[[#refUNESCOform|A.C.F, O. 2001]], p.3.</ref> Local and regional Diablada festivals arose during the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish colonial period]] and were eventually consolidated as the [[Carnaval de Oruro]] in the [[Oruro, Bolivia|modern city]] of that name.<ref name="UNESCOformPP10-17">[[#refUNESCOform|A.C.F, O. 2001]], pp.10-17.</ref>
===From Spain to the New World===
[[Image:Correfoc13.jpg|thumb|left|''[[Ball de diables]]'' during a ''[[Correfoc]]'' in [[Catalonia]], Spain.]]
The ''Diablada'' has its roots in the medieval ''[[Auto Sacramental]]'' dances of ''El Balls des Diables'' and ''Els Sets Pecats Capitals'', which originated in the region of [[Catalonia]] in [[Spain]].<ref name="Nicomedes"/><ref name="Fortun">Fortún, p. 3.</ref><ref name="Nicomedes">{{es icon}}{{cite book |title=Obras Completas II. Investigación (1958-1991)|last=Santa Cruz|first=Nicomedes|authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2004|publisher=LibrosEnRed|location=|isbn=1597540145, 9781597540148|page=285|pages=540 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ysqz9XsfczYC&source=gbs_navlinks_s|accessdate=2009-09-27}}</ref>


{{cquote|...The Spanish banned these ceremonies in the seventeenth century, but they continued under the guise of Christian liturgy: the Andean gods were concealed behind Christian icons and the Andean divinities became the Saints. The Ito festival was transformed into a Christian ritual, celebrated on Candlemas (2 February). The traditional '''llama llama''' or '''diablada''' in worship of the Uru god Tiw became the main dance at the Carnival of Oruro....| 4 = Proclamation of "Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" to the "Carnival of Oruro", UNESCO 2001}}
===Native American influence===
[[Image:Diablo puneño.jpg|thumb|[[Supay]] in the ''Diablada'' of Puno, Peru.]]


Chilean and Peruvian organizations suggest that since the dance has roots in Andean civilizations that existed before the formation of the current national borders, it should belong equally to the three nations.<ref name="WLSspat">{{cite news|author=Moffett, Matt|author2=Kozak, Robert|date=21 August 2009|title=In This Spat Between Bolivia and Peru, The Details Are in the Devils|page=A1|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125081309502848049|author-link2=Robert Kozak|access-date=4 October 2009}}</ref> Some Chilean historians concede that the Diablada originated in Bolivia and was adopted for Chile's [[Fiesta de La Tirana]] in 1952, though it is also influenced by a similar 16th Century Chilean tradition called ''Diablos sueltos''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Memoria Chilena diabladas|url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-92445.html|language=es}}</ref>
[[Julia Elena Fortún]] explains that the [[Auto Sacramental]] dances of Spain merged with the Andean mythologies like Tiwo, Wari, and [[Supay]] (the lord of the interior highlands) in order to form the ''Diablada''.<ref name="Fortun"/> According to the [[UNESCO]], the dance derives from the traditional Andean dance of the ''Llama Llama'' in worship of the [[Uros|Uru]] god [[Tiw]].<ref name="UNESCO"/>


Some Peruvian historians also concede that the dance originated in Bolivia but was influenced by earlier traditions practiced across the Altiplano region, including some specific to Peru.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/avalenciach/docs/avach_articulo_candelaria_unesco|title=Candelaria una propuesta frente a una gran responsabilidad|author=Américo Valencia Chacon|date=3 September 2015 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=La diablada como danza|url=https://es.scribd.com/document/474704564/LA-DIABLADA-COMO-DANZA|author=Luis Valverde Caldas|language=es}}</ref> The Peruvian version, ''Diablada puneña'', originated in the late 1500s among the [[Lupaca|Lupaka]] people in the [[Puno Province|Puno]] region, who in turn were influenced by the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]]; with that dance merging with the Bolivian version in the early 1900s.<ref name="CuentasOrmacheaPP35-36">[[Diablada#refCuentasOrmachea1986|Cuentas Ormachea 1986]], pp. 35–36, 45.</ref><ref name="Manzana">{{cite interview |last=Morales Serruto |first=José |title=La diablada, manzana de la discordia en el altiplano <nowiki>[The ''Diablada'', the bone of contention in the Altiplano]</nowiki> |url=http://www.correoperu.com.pe/correo/nota.php?txtEdi_id=18&txtSecci_id=72&txtSecci_parent=&txtNota_id=106612 |language=es |publisher=[[Correo (Puno)|Correo]] |location=Puno, Peru |date=3 August 2009 |access-date=27 September 2009 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Scholars who defend the Diablada's origins in Peru cite [[Aymara people|Aymara]]n traditions surrounding the deity [[Anchanchu]] that had been documented by 16th Century historian [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]].<ref name="RubioZapata" /><ref name="McFarrenChoqueGisbert">{{cite book |author1=McFarren, Peter |author2=Choque, Sixto |author3=Gisbert, Teresa |editor1-first=Peter |editor1-last=McFarren |title=Máscaras de los Andes bolivianos |trans-title=Masks of the Bolivian Andes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3LOnU0zgugC |access-date=24 October 2009 |year=2009 |orig-date=1993 |publisher=Editorial Quipus |location=Indiana, United States |language=es}}</ref> There is also a version of the Diablada in Ecuador called the ''Diablada pillareña''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.diariolosandes.com.ec/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=10219 |title=Municipio realiza actualización del avalúo para el bienio 2016-2017 |access-date=2010-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170023/http://www.diariolosandes.com.ec/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=10219 |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
===Birthplace theories===


===Spanish influence===
There are different theories surrounding as to where the first Diablada originated.
[[File:Diablada autentica oruro.jpg|thumb|"Struggle of the Diablada" as performed during the [[Carnival of Oruro]].]]
Some historians have theorized that the modern Diablada exhibits influences from Spanish dance traditions. In her book ''La danza de los diablos'', [[Julia Elena Fortún]] proposed a connection with the [[Catalonia|Catalan]] [[entremés]] called ''[[Ball de diables]]'' as performed in the Catalonian communities of [[Penedès]] and [[Tarragona]]. That dance depicts a struggle between [[Lucifer]] and the [[Michael (archangel)|archangel Saint Michael]] and is first known to have been performed in 1150.<ref name="RiusIMercade">[[Diablada#refRiusIMercade|Rius I Mercade 2005]]</ref><ref name="FortunP23">[[Diablada#refFortun1961|Fortún 1961]], p. 23.</ref> Catalan scholar Jordi Rius i Mercade has also found similarities between the ''Ball de diables'' and several Andean dances including the similarly-themed ''Baile de Diablos de Cobán'' in Guatemala and ''Danza de los diablicos de Túcume'' in Peru.<ref name="RiusIMercade" />


Those theories contradict the more common theory that the modern Diablada is most influenced by the Spanish practice of [[autos sacramentales]] during which the colonizers introduced Christianity to the natives of the Andes, due to differing conceptions of the devil and his temptations.<ref>[[#refFortun1961|Fortún 1961]], p. 24.</ref> The [[autos sacramentales]] process has been cited as an influence on the emergence of the ''Diablada puneña'' in Peru, shortly after the [[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire]], as believed by Garcilaso de la Vega.<ref name="Garcilaso">{{cite book|author=De la Vega, Garcilaso|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hro5nwgWxvoC&q=suli|title=Comentarios Reales|author2=Serna, Mercedes|publisher=Editorial Castalia|year=2000|isbn=84-7039-855-5|edition=2000|series=Clásicos Castalia|volume=252|location=Madrid, Spain|pages=226–227|language=es|trans-title=Royal Commentaries|chapter=XXVIII|oclc=46420337|author-link=Inca Garcilaso de la Vega|orig-date=1617|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hro5nwgWxvoC&pg=PA224}}</ref> Peruvian scholar [[Nicomedes Santa Cruz]] and Bolivian anthropologist Freddy Arancibia Andrade have suggested a similar process, with the dance originating among miners who rebelled against the Spanish at Potosi in 1538 while combining the ancient ritual of [[Tinku]] with Christian references.<ref name="ArancibiaAndrade">{{cite interview |last=Arancibia Andrade |first=Freddy |title=Investigador afirma que la diablada surgió en Potosí <nowiki>[Investigator affirms that the ''Diablada'' emerged in Potosí]</nowiki> |url=http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090820_006825/nota_253_864270.htm |language=es |location=La Paz, Bolivia |date=20 August 2009 |access-date=2 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904134937/http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090820_006825/nota_253_864270.htm |archive-date=4 September 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Nicomedes">[[#refSantaCruz2004|Santa Cruz, 2004]], p. 285.</ref> Andrade has also proposed a similar process among striking miners in 1904 as the origin of the modern version of the Diablada.<ref name="ArancibiaAndrade" />
Historian [[Mercedes Serna]] explains that as soon as the [[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire]] was achieved, there was a sudden increase in the amount of [[Autos Sacramentales]] presented in the Spanish colonies. [[Jose Miguel Oviedo]] records that by the year 1560 contests were held for religious theatrical presentations.<ref name="Comentarios">de la Vega, pp. 226-227.</ref> Records show that the first ''Diablada'' took place in [[1576]] on [[Juli]], [[Puno]], in the area of present-day [[Peru]], as a result of Spanish [[Jesuit]] missionaries presenting the ''Autos Sacramentales'' to the native [[Lupaka]]s population of the area.<ref name="Manzana"/><ref name="Pasacalle"/><ref>http://www.museodelacoca.com/diablada-en.html#</ref>


=== Post-independence period ===
In his book ''[[Comentarios Reales de los Incas]]'', the chronologist [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]], a direct blood descendant of [[Inca]] royalty,<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite web|title=Garcilaso Inca de la Vega (1539-1616)|publisher=University of Notre Dame|url=http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/durand/biographies/garcilaso.html|accessdate=2009-10-20}}</ref> comments on this event and explains that the Spanish Jesuit missionaries taught the Native Americans of [[Juli]] sections of the [[Book of Genesis]] through an ''[[Auto Sacramental]]'' comedy that was written in [[Aymara]].<ref name="Comentarios"/> Garcilaso de la Vega further remarks that the indigenous people of Juli learned and presented their version of the dance to the priests and, later, presented a dialogue to the rest of the Spanish population in such a way that it “changed the opinion that up to that point had regarded the natives as being dumb, rude, or incapable.”<ref name="Comentarios"/>
Though the traditions of the Diablada were merged with Christianity during the colonial period, the meanings of the original traditions were revived and reassessed during the [[Spanish American wars of independence|Latin American wars of independence]]. The Altiplano region, particularly around [[Lake Titicaca]], became a center of appreciation for pre-Columbian dance and music.<ref name="Salles-ReesePP166-167">[[Diablada#refSalles-Reese|Salles-Reese 1997]], pp. 166-167.</ref> During the [[Bolivian War of Independence]], the main religious festival honoring the [[Virgin of Candelaria|Virgin of the Candlemas]] was replaced by [[Carnival]], which allowed for greater acknowledgement of pre-Christian traditions including the Diablada. The present annual Diablada festival was established in Oruro by 1891.<ref name="HarrisPP205-211">[[#refHarris2003|Harris 2003]], pp. 205-211.</ref>


The first institutionalized Diablada dance squad was the Gran Tradicional y Auténtica Diablada Oruro, founded in Bolivia in 1904 by Pedro Pablo Corrales.<ref name="Pre-ColumbianUrus3">{{cite news|date=9 August 2009|title=La diablada orureña se remonta a la época de los Urus precoloniales|language=es|trans-title=The ''Diablada'' of Oruro goes back to the times of the Pre-Columbian Urus|newspaper=[[La Razón (La Paz)|La Razón]]|location=La Paz, Bolivia|url=http://co.wradiofm.com/nota.aspx?id=858474|access-date=9 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813192031/http://co.wradiofm.com/nota.aspx?id=858474|archive-date=13 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> That squad established a counterpart called the Los Vaporinos in Peru in 1918.<ref name="CuentasOrmacheaPP35-362">[[Diablada#refCuentasOrmachea1986|Cuentas Ormachea 1986]], pp. 35–36, 45.</ref> A squad from Bolivia was invited to travel to the [[Fiesta de La Tirana|Fiesta de la Tirana]] in Chile in 1956, and that country's first established squad was called Primera Diablada Servidores Virgen del Carmen, centered in [[Iquique]].<ref name="MemoriaChilena2">{{cite web|year=2004|title=El folclor de Chile y sus tres grandes raíces|trans-title=The Chile's folklore and its three great roots|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/dest.asp?id=folclor3diablada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911231311/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/dest.asp?id=folclor3diablada|archive-date=11 September 2008|access-date=9 December 2009|publisher=Memorias Chilenas|language=es|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2001, the [[Carnaval de Oruro]] was declared one of the [[Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity]], along with the Diablada and 19 other dances performed at the festival.<ref name="UNESCO3">{{cite web|year=2001|title=Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Information related to Intangible Cultural Heritage|url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=EN&cp=BO|access-date=3 October 2009|publisher=[[UNESCO]]|quote=The town of Oruro, situated at an altitude of 3,700 metres in the mountains of western Bolivia and once a pre-Columbian ceremonial site, was an important mining area in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Resettled by the Spanish in 1606, it continued to be a sacred site for the Uru people, who would often travel long distances to perform their rituals, especially for the principal Ito festival. The Spanish banned these ceremonies in the seventeenth century, but they continued under the guise of Christian liturgy: the Andean gods were concealed behind Christian icons and the Andean divinities became the Saints. The Ito festival was transformed into a Christian ritual, celebrated on Candlemas (2 February). The traditional llama llama or diablada in worship of the Uru god Tiw became the main dance at the Carnival of Oruro.}}</ref> In 2004, the Bolivian government awarded high national honors to the Gran Tradicional y Auténtica Diablada Oruro for its 100th anniversary.<ref name="CondorDeLosAndes2">{{cite web|year=2009|title=La Diablada De Oruro, máscara danza pagana|trans-title=The ''Diablada'' of Oruro, mask pagan dance|url=http://ecuador.macroclasificado.com/clasificado/698500.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714013140/http://ecuador.macroclasificado.com/clasificado/698500.html|archive-date=14 July 2011|access-date=9 December 2009|language=es|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
===Expansion and formalization===

The success of this method resulted in the expansion of the ''Diablada'' to other areas of the [[Altiplano]], including [[Oruro]] in Bolivia.<ref name="Manzana"/> However, the ''Diablada'' would not formally take role in any major celebration until [[1892]] when the [[Sicuris]] of the ''Barrio Mañazo'' officialized the dance as part of the devotion practices for the [[Virgin of Candelaria]].<ref name="Manzana"/> According to Bolivian historian [[Julia Elena Fortún]], in [[1904]] the ''Diablada'' was formalized in [[Oruro]] as part of its festivities in the [[Carnaval de Oruro]].<ref name="Manzana"/>

===21st Century===

In 2009, Bolivia claimed sole ownership of the dance and all its elements, but this claim has been a matter of dispute with Peru which claims the dance to be of the cultural heritage of all nations who hold Aymara culture.<ref name="emol.com">[http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=371622 Perú y Bolivia incluyen a Chile en disputa por traje de Diablada] [[El Mercurio]]</ref>


==Choreography==
==Choreography==
[[Image:Carnaval de Oruro dia I (61).JPG|thumb|right|Diablada dancer in the ''Carnaval de Oruro''.]]
[[File:Trajesdeluces207.jpg|231px|thumb|right|Diablada dancers in Puno, Peru.]]
In its original form, the dance was performed with music by a band of Sikuris, who played the [[Siku (instrument)|siku]]. In modern times the dance is accompanied by an orchestra. Dancers often perform on streets and public squares, but the ritual can also be performed at indoor theaters and arenas. The ritual begins with a [[krewe]] featuring Lucifer and Satan with several ''China Supay'', or devil women. They are followed by the personified [[seven deadly sins]] of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Afterwards, a troop of devils come out. They are all led by [[Saint Michael]], with a blouse, short skirt, sword, and shield. During the dance, [[angel]]s and [[demon]]s move continuously. This confrontation between the two sides is eclipsed when [[Saint Michael]] appears and defeats the Devil. The choreography has three versions, each consisting of seven moves.<ref name="FortunChoreograph">{{cite book |author=Fortún, Julia Elena |author-link=Julia Elena Fortún |title=La danza de los diablos |trans-title=The dance of the devils |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcVYAAAAMAAJ&q=La+danza+de+los+diablos+%3A+danzas+populares+bolivianas |trans-chapter=Current choreography of the devils dance |chapter=Actual coreografía del baile de los diablos |chapter-url=http://ww2.atlasdeladiversidad.net/docs/escuelas/escuela322/gruposclase/grupoclase830/retratos/retrato13056/actual_coreografia_de_la_diablada.doc |format=DOC |series=Autores bolivianos contemporáneos |volume=5 |year=1961 |publisher=Ministerio de Educación y Bellas Artes, Oficialía Mayor de Cultura Nacional |location=La Paz, Bolivia |language=es |oclc=3346627}}</ref>

In its original form, the dance was performed to accompany a band of ''[[Sikuri]]s'', which were a group of musicians playing the ''[[Siku (panpipe)|Siku]]''. Nowadays, the ''Diablada'' in the Altiplano is accompanied by band and orchestra.

The uniformity of the suits brought choreographic innovation, with the layout of steps, movements, and figure designs that are not only ready to be staged in open areas such as roads, streets, and public squares; but also in places such as theaters and [[arena]]s.

At the start of the [[krewe]] are Lucifer and Satan with several ''China Supay'', or devil women. They are followed by the personified [[seven deadly sins]] of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Afterwards, a troop of devils come out. They are all led by [[Saint Michael]], with a blouse, short skirt, sword, and shield.

During the dance, [[angel]]s and [[demon]]s are constantly moving around while forming somewhat complex figures such as crosses and circles. This confrontation between the two sides is eclipsed when [[Saint Michael]] appears, battles, and defeats [[the Devil]]. Both characters are dressed in heavy costumes that are highly ornate and finely wrought. The weight of the costume is more of a challenge than an obstable for the different dance groups. The dancers often attempt to make unique and complex choreographies. The result is a colorful dance, creating a show very much appreciated by the public.

The choreographed dance includes the following figures:

*'''Part One'''

The Invasion and Walk of the Devil; the Greeting; the Multitude of Dancers

*'''Part Two'''

The Story of the Dance of the Diablada; the Star.

*'''Part Three'''

The Blades; the Trident; the Clover; the Chain of Three; the Step of the Devil; the Entangle; the ''Mecapaqueña''.

==Devotions==
[[Image:Carnavales Oruro dia II (68).JPG|thumb|right|Sanctuary of the ''Virgin of Socavon'' during the festivies for the ''Carnaval de Oruro'' in Bolivia.]]

Three legends are linked to the devotions that currently celebrate the ''Diablada''.

In Puno, a legend tells that in 1675, near the mine Laikakota a league of the city, the Spanish José Salcedo ordered to destroy the houses of the miners but decided that Mary saw battling evil. Observed by fire in the mine was born the cult of the Virgin of Candelaria.

In Oruro, a legend tells that occurs mid-seventeenth century the collapse of a mine and that miners invoke the Virgin of Candelaria who saves you the Supay take them to their domains.


==Music==
In 1789, Chiru Chiru was a thief who stole for the poor. When he died at his home found an image of the Virgin Mary. This legend has another version: Carlos Borromeo Mantilla priest hears the confession of Anselm Belardino nicknamed Nina Nina and devotee of the Virgin of Candelaria who confessed to having abducted Lorenza Chuquiamo. The confession states that he was rescued by a young woman who lit two candles on top of Cerro Pie de Gallo.
[[File:Musica diablada 1862 oruro.svg|thumb|center|alt=A partiture of a Diablada tune.|1862 partiture of a ''Diablada'' tune named ''Déjame'' by the composer Froilán Zevillano of the [[Poopó Province]] in [[Oruro, Bolivia|Oruro]], [[Bolivia]].|upright=2.0]]
The music associated with the dance has two parts: the first is known as ''the March'' and the second one is known as ''the Devil's Mecapaqueña''. Some squads play only one melody or start the ''Mecapaqueña'' in the fourth movement "by four".<ref name="FortunChoreograph" /> Since the second half of the 20th century, dialogue is omitted so the focus is only on the dance.<ref>[[#refGisbert|Gisbert 2002]], p. 9.</ref>


==Regional variations==
==Regional variations==
===Cajamarca===
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=== ''Diablada Puneña'' (Peru) ===
===La Tirana===
[[File:Diablos Caporales from Puno, Peru.png|thumb|''Diablos'' from Puno, Peru.|228x228px]]
[[Image:Diablada de La Tirana.jpg|thumb|''Diablada'' during the [[Fiesta de la Tirana]] in Chile.]]
The ''Diablada Puneña'' originated in modern Peru with the in the [[Lupaka]] people in 1576, when they combined tenets of Christianity from the ''autos sacramentales'' with ancient [[Aymara people|Aymara]] traditions.<ref name="RubioZapata" /><ref name="McFarrenChoqueGisbert" /> Some additional influences from the cult of the [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Virgin Mary]] were added in the following century.<ref name="Manzana"/> The Peruvian version of the Diablada was quite different from the Ururo-based Bolivian version until the two merged at the [[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]] in 1965. However, the Peruvian versions continue to feature homegrown figures like [[Superman]], [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]], [[Mexican people|ancient Mexicans]], and characters from popular films.<ref name="CuentasOrmachea2009">{{cite news |title=Diablada: coreografía, vestimenta y música|author=Cuentas Ormachea, Enrique |author-link= Enrique Cuentas Ormachea|url=http://www.losandes.com.pe/Cultural/20090823/26162.html|newspaper=[[Los Andes (Puno)|Los Andes]]|location=Puno, Peru|date=23 August 2009|access-date=24 October 2009 |language=es |trans-title=''Diablada'': choreography, clothing and music}}</ref>
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The costumes used in the Peruvian Diablata also include influences from [[Tibet]] as well as elements from [[Pre-Columbian Peru|pre-Columbian Peruvian]] cultures such as [[Cerro Sechín|Sechin]], [[Chavín culture|Chavin]], [[Nazca]], and [[Moche (culture)|Mochica]].<ref name="RubioZapata" /> Homegrown masks were produced and sold in Peru starting in 1956.<ref name="JiménezBorja">{{cite book |author=Jiménez Borja, Arturo |editor=Fundación del Banco Continental para el Fomento de la Educación y la Cultura |title=Máscaras peruanas |trans-title=Peruvian masks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fG1uAAAAMAAJ |access-date=24 October 2009 |year=1996 |location=Lima, Peru |language=es}}</ref> Music for the dance was originally performed on the [[Siku (instrument)|siku]],<ref name="MUSEF">{{cite book |author=Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (Bolivia) |editor=MUSEF |title=Serie anales de la reunión anual de etnología |trans-title=Records of the annual reunion of ethnology series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YLsNAAAAYAAJ |access-date=24 October 2009 |volume=2 |year=2003 |publisher=MUSEF |location=La Paz, Bolivia |language=es}}</ref> but that was later replaced by percussionists known as Sicu-Morenos.<ref name="CuentasOrmachea2009" />
===Lima===
[[Image:SondelosDiablos2.png|thumb|[[Pancho Fierro]]'s depiction of the [[Son de los Diablos]], an [[Afro-Peruvian]] dance related to the ''Diablada''. Instruments like the [[guitar]], [[harp]], and [[cajita]] can be seen.]]
{{Main|Son de los Diablos}}
The ''[[Son de los Diablos]]'' ({{lang-en|Rhythm of the Devils}}) is an [[Afro-Peruvian]] dance that developed as a mixture between African, Spanish, and Native American rhythms. [[Nicomedes Santa Cruz]] explains that, despite popular opinion, the ''Son de los Diablos'' has no links with African rituals or with the Andean [[Morenada]], but rather it is more likely related to the ''Diabladas'' of [[Oruro]].<ref name="Nicomedes2">Santa Cruz, pp. 51–53.</ref> Much like the ''Diablada'', the ''Son de los Diablos'' was heavily influenced by the Spanish [[Corpus Christi (feast)|Corpus Christi]] celebrations, it was predominantly practiced by an ethnic community (in this case the [[Afro-Peruvian]] community), and it was banned from religious celebrations by the [[Catholic Church]] in 1817. Nonetheless, the dance would remain an important part of carnival celebrations in [[Lima]] up until the early 20th century.<ref name="BlackRhythms">Feldman, pp. 31-35.</ref> The dance would gain a revival in the 1950s when [[Jose Durand]] used [[Pancho Fierro]]'s depictions of the dance and the information provided by old ''Son de los Diablos'' dancers in order to once again bring the dance back to life.<ref name="BlackRhythms"/>


=== ''Fiesta de La Tirana'' (Chile) ===
===Oruro===
In Chile, the Diablada is performed during the [[Fiesta de La Tirana]] in the northern region of that country. The festival attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually to the small village of [[La Tirana]].<ref name="NorthDancesCL">{{cite web|url=http://www.hamaycan.cl/danzasceremoniales.htm |title=Danzas ceremoniales del área cultural del Norte |publisher=Hamaycan |location=Chile |language=es |trans-title=Ceremonial dances of the northern cultural area |access-date=8 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609105439/http://www.hamaycan.cl/danzasceremoniales.htm |archive-date=June 9, 2009 }}</ref> The festival is descended from the celebrations for the [[Our Lady of Mount Carmel|Virgin of Carmen]] that began in 1540.<ref name="NorthDancesCL" />
[[Image:Carnaval de Oruro dia I (60).JPG|thumb|''Diablada'' in the [[Carnaval de Oruro]] in Bolivia.]]
{{Main|Diablada of Oruro}}
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==See also==
According to the [[UNESCO]], in its [[Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity]] award to the [[Carnaval de Oruro]], the ''Diablada'' became the main dance of the traditional [[Bolivia]]n carnival.<ref name="UNESCO"/>


*[[Carnaval de Oruro]]
===Piura===
{{Main|Danza de Diablitos}}
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===Puno===
{{Main|Diablada Puneña}}
[[Image:Trajesdeluces207.jpg|thumb|''[[Diablada puneña]]'' during the [[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]] in Peru.]]

The ''Diablada Puneña'' originated when the [[Lupaka]]s people presented their version of the ''Autos Sacramentales'', which according to [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]] included sections of the ''Book of Genesis'' in the Aymara language,<ref name="Comentarios"/> taught by the Spanish Jesuit priests in [[1576]] in the city of [[Juli]] in present-day [[Peru]].<ref name="Manzana"/><ref name="Pasacalle"/> According to [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]], the natives were taught sections of the [[Book fo Genesis]]. Nonetheless, the dance holds Native American roots from the ''Danza del Anchanchu'', a pre-hispanic miner's ritual,<ref name="Harvard">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Diablos Danzantes en Puno, Perú| publisher=Drclas.harvard.edu| url=http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/1005| accessdate=2009-10-24}}</ref> and the Aymaran narrative of the ''Myth of the Supaya''.<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite book |title=Máscaras de los Andes bolivianos|last=McFarren|first=Peter|authorlink= |coauthors=Sixto Choque and Teresa Gisbert|year=1993|publisher=Editorial Quipus|location=|isbn=|page=101|pages=171|url=http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=s3LOnU0zgugC&source=gbs_navlinks_s|accessdate=2009-10-24}}</ref> The dance's association with the cult of the Virgin of Candelaria stems from a popular legend that tells that in 1675, in the mine of Laikakota (located near Puno), a Spaniard by the name of José Salcedo changed his decision to destroy the miner's houses because he saw a fire coming out of the mine as a result of the [[Virgin Mary]] fighting the Devil inside the mine.

According to historian Enrique Cuentas Ormachea, until [[1965]] the ''Diablada Puneña'' was very different from the ''[[Diablada of Oruro]]'', and the influences from Oruro began in [[1918]] when the group ''Los Vaporinos'' (formed by workers from the Peruvian Corp that worked in [[Lake Titicaca]]) began to dance in the [[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]] with costumes and bands from Bolivia. Despite this, the other groups from Puno continued performing the dance in their traditional groupings of ''Sicu-Morenos'',<ref name="Infopuno">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=El Sicu Moreno en la Diablada de Puno| publisher=Infopuno.com| url=http://www.infopuno.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=200| accessdate=2009-10-24}}</ref> and in 1922 ''Los Vaporinos'' decided to return to the traditional performance as well. Nowadays, the dance still maintains its differences from the ''Diablada of Oruro''.<ref name="CoreografiaPuno">{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Diablada: coreografía, vestimenta y música| publisher=LosAndes.com| url=http://www.losandes.com.pe/Cultural/20090823/26162.html| accessdate=2009-10-24}}</ref>

Since its beginnings, the performance had a variety of changes. Originally the masks were made from [[plaster]] and the hair from [[baize]] (a coarse woollen cloth). Overtime, the mask models were influenced by [[Tibet]]an masks as well as elements from Native American cultures such as [[Sechin]], [[Chavin]], [[Nazca]], and [[Mochica]].<ref name="Harvard"/> These masks were traditionally made by each dancer or bought Tibetan-styled masks from a Bolivian mask-maker named Antonio Vizacarra, but in 1956 the brothers Alberto and Ramón Velásquez established a workshop in Puno where masks were created and sold for the event.<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite book |title=Máscaras peruanas|last=Jiménez Borja|first=Arturo|authorlink= |coauthors=|year=1996|publisher=Fundación del Banco Continental para el Fomento de la Educación y la Cultura|location=|isbn=|page=142|pages=237|url=http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=fG1uAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s|accessdate=2009-10-24}}</ref> Also, the ''Diablada'' was at first small and reserved for important religious dates in the [[Catholic Church]]. As the dance further developed, the devil dancers began to accompany groups of ''[[Sikuri]]s'', which are an assemblage of musicians that play the ''[[Siku (panpipe)|Siku]]'' (the traditional Andean panpipe). Among the first ''Sikuris'' that surged at this point were those of the ''Barrio Mañazo'' (1892) and ''Juventud Obrera'' (1909).<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite book |title=Serie Anales de la Reunión Anual de Etnología, Volumen 2|last=Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (Bolivia)|first=|authorlink= |coauthors=|year=2003|publisher=MUSEF|location=|isbn=|page=131|pages=171|url=http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=YLsNAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s|accessdate=2009-10-24}}</ref> Nonetheless, anthropologist [[José María Arguedas]] explains that eventually the role of the ''Sikuris'' was minimized to the point that they began to accompany the devil dancers under the new name of ''Sicu-Morenos''.<ref name="Infopuno"/> The ''Sicu-Morenos'' play with sicus, bombos, snare drums, cymbals, and triangles; and they dance [[Huayno]]s while accompanied by characters such as ''Caporales'', minor devils, ''Chinas Diablas'', the old man, the big-lipped negro, the Apache, the lion, the bat, the condor, the bear, the gorilla, and the giraffe (among others).<ref name="CoreografiaPuno"/> These characters, along with the central performance of the devil dancers and the archangel [[Saint Michael]], make the ''Diablada Puneña'' one of the most colorful and unique dances in the Fiesta de la Candelaria.

==Controversies==
===2009 Miss universe dispute===

In August 1 of 2009 Bolivian officials stated that it could present a legal appeal to the organizers of [[Miss Universe]] due to the planned use of a typical Diablada wear by the Peruvian candidate [[Karen Schwarz]]. [[Pablo Groux]], Bolivian minister of Culture, said that any use of the wear by Scharwz in the content would be an unlawful appropriation of Bolivian heritage and have menaced to bring the case to the [[International Court of Justice]]. [[El Comercio]], a Peruvian newspaper, have mentioned that this is not the first time the diablada wear is shown in the contest and that it was [[María Josefa Isensee]], a [[Chilean]], that first used it in the Miss Universe contest. Peruvian foreign minister [[José Antonio García Belaúnde]] said that since the Diablada dress is of indigenous [[Aymara]] origin it can not be considered an exclusive of any of the particular countries where the Aymara live.<ref name="emol.com"/><ref>[http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=369781 Bolivia rechaza que representante peruana en Miss Universo use traje de la "Diablada"] [[El Mercurio]]</ref>

The problem further continued even after the end of the [[Miss Universe 2009]] contest when [[Evo Morales]], the president of Bolivia, invited Karen Schwarz to dance the ''Diablada'' in the ''Carnaval de Oruro'' and afterwards asked if "the ladies of Oruro would get jealous" of Schwarz's invitation. In response, Schwarz expressed her disagreement with the way Morales was acting, particularly due to his status as president of a nation, and declined the invitation on the grounds that she would be spending that time dancing the ''Diablada'' in the ''Fiesta de la Candelaria'' in Puno.<ref>http://www.elheraldo.hn/Ediciones/2009/10/13/Noticias/Miss-Peru-rechaza-invitacion-de-Evo-para-bailar-La-Diablada</ref>

===Bolivia's demand===

In 2009, Bolivia began a [[propaganda]] campaign in which the government of Bolivia wished to demonstrate and advertise the people that the ''Diablada'' was a Bolivian dance native to Oruro. This campaign was carried out through television stations such as [[CNN]] and [[Telesur]].<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Reivindican el origen boliviano de La Diablada| publisher=Jornada.unam.mx| url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/08/21/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a08n2esp| accessdate=2009-09-28}}</ref> Bolivia claims that [[UNESCO]] recognizes the Diablada as a Bolivian dance.<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=Bolivia reivindica La Diablada tras controversia en Miss Universo| publisher=Eluniversal.com.mx| url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/621071.html| accessdate=2009-09-28}}</ref> After the events at [[Miss Universe 2009]], Bolivia claims that its ambassador in France gathered with the [[UNESCO]] assistant director Marcio Barbossa, whom allegedly expressed his solidarity with Bolivia on this issue.<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=UNESCO se solidarizó con Bolivia por disputas con Perú sobre La Diablada| publisher=Tiempos del Mundo| url=http://www.tdm.com/Politica/2009/08/20/UNESCO-se-solidariz-con-Bolivia-por-disputas-con-Per-sobre-La-Diablada/UPI-25041250821212/| accessdate=2009-09-29}}</ref> In response, the Permanent Delegation of Peru to the UNESCO sent a communicate expressing their inconformity. However, UNESCO has not made any official notification on the matter, but instead have stated on their description of the [[Carnaval de Oruro]] that it has a common origin with Peru's [[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]]<ref>{{es icon}}{{cite web | title=La Diablada es de Perú y Bolivia, y punto| publisher=Losandes.com.pe| url=http://www.losandes.com.pe/Sociedad/20090902/26590.html| accessdate=2009-09-28}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Diablada Puneña]]
*[[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]]
*[[Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)|Fiesta de la Candelaria]]
*[[Carnaval de Oruro]]
*[[Fiesta de La Tirana]]
*[[Fiesta de La Tirana]]
*[[Brazilian Carnival]]


==Footnotes==
==References==
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'''Articles:'''
*{{cite news |title=Dance of the Devils |url=http://yareah.com/2013/10/2309-dance-devils-artist-charlene-eckels/ |author=Eckels, Charlene |author-link=Eckels Charlene |magazine=[[Yareah]] |location=New York, New York |date=17 October 2013 |access-date=27 October 2013 |trans-title=Dance of the Devils |ref=refBolivia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201239/http://yareah.com/2013/10/2309-dance-devils-artist-charlene-eckels/ |archive-date=29 October 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
*{{cite news|title=La diablada orureña ya era noticia en el siglo XIX |url=http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090823_006828/nota_269_865807.htm |author=Cajías, Fernando |author-link=Fernando Cajías |newspaper=[[La Razón (La Paz)|La Razón]] |location=La Paz, Bolivia |date=23 August 2009 |access-date=10 December 2009 |language=es |trans-title=The ''Diablada'' of Oruro was already news in the 19th century |ref=refOruro19thCentury |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927151233/http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090823_006828/nota_269_865807.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2009 }}
*{{cite journal|author=Cuentas Ormachea, Enrique|author-link=Enrique Cuentas Ormachea|date=March 1986|title=La Diablada: Una expresión de coreografía mestiza del Altiplano del Collao|trans-title=The ''Diablada'': A mixed race choreographic expression of the Altiplano in the Collao|journal=Boletín de Lima|volume=year 8|issue=44|publisher=Editorial Los Pinos|location=Lima, Peru|issn=0253-0015|url=http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9750175/spanisch/diablada_punenia.htm|language=es|format=PNG|access-date=November 24, 2009|ref=refCuentasOrmachea1986|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616140036/http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9750175/spanisch/diablada_punenia.htm|archive-date=June 16, 2010|df=mdy-all}}
*{{cite news |title=Sobre diablos y diabladas, A propósito de apreciaciones sesgadas |author=Echevers Tórrez, Diego |url=http://www.lapatriaenlinea.com/index.php?nota=3543 |newspaper=[[La Patria (Oruro)|La Patria]] |location=Oruro, Bolivia |date=3 October 2009 |access-date=8 January 2010 |language=es |trans-title=About devils and ''Diabladas'', speaking about biased interpretations|ref=refDiablosDiabladas}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.cholonautas.edu.pe/modulo/upload/gisbert.pdf |title=El control de lo imaginario: teatralización de la fiesta |author=Gisbert, Teresa |author-link=Teresa Gisbert |date=December 2002 |work=Módulo: Estudios de caso&nbsp;– Session 14, Lecture 3 |publisher=Instituto de Estudios Peruanos |location=Lima, Peru |language=es |trans-title=The control of the imaginary: theatralization of the party |access-date=8 April 2010 |ref=refGisbert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719035729/http://www.cholonautas.edu.pe/modulo/upload/gisbert.pdf |archive-date=19 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.balldediables.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=217&Itemid=31 |title=Concomitàncies entre els balls de diables catalans i les diabladas d'Amèrica del Sud |author=Rius i Mercade, Jordi |date=18 January 2008 |publisher=Junta del Ball de Diables www.balldediables.org |location=Tarragona, Spain |language=ca |trans-title=Concomitances between the ''Ball de diables'' and the ''Diabladas'' of South America |access-date=10 December 2009|ref=refRiusIMercade}}
*Thomas M Landy, [https://www.catholicsandcultures.org/chile/dancing-virgin-la-tirana "Dancing for the Virgin at La Tirana"], ''Catholics & Cultures'' updated February 17, 2017


'''Books'''
==References==
*{{cite book |author=Asociación de Conjuntos del Folklore de Oruro |author-link=Asociación de Conjuntos del Folklore de Oruro |editor=UNESCO |editor-link=UNESCO |title=Formulario de Candidatura para la proclamación del Carnaval de Oruro como Obra Maestra del Patrimonio Oral e Intangible de la Humanidad |trans-title=Candidature Form for the proclamation of the ''Carnaval de Oruro'' as Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity |url=http://www.carnavaldeoruroacfo.com/documentos/FORMULARIO%20DE%20CANDIDATURA.pdf |access-date=11 January 2010 |year=2001 |location=Oruro, Bolivia |language=es |ref=refUNESCOform |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091104051802/http://www.carnavaldeoruroacfo.com/documentos/FORMULARIO%20DE%20CANDIDATURA.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2009 |df=dmy-all }}
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*{{cite book |author=Fortún, Julia Elena |author-link=Julia Elena Fortún |title=La danza de los diablos |trans-title=The dance of the devils |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcVYAAAAMAAJ&q=La+danza+de+los+diablos+%3A+danzas+populares+bolivianas |series=Autores bolivianos contemporáneos |volume=5 |year=1961 |publisher=Ministerio de Educación y Bellas Artes, Oficialía Mayor de Cultura Nacional |location=La Paz, Bolivia |language=es |oclc=3346627 |ref=refFortun1961}}
* {{es icon}}{{cite book |author={{aut|de la Vega, Garcilaso}} |authorlink=Inca Garcilaso de la Vega|year=2000|chapter=|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=hro5nwgWxvoC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Comentarios Reales de los Incas]|editor=Mercedes Serna|edition=|publisher=Editorial Castalia|location=Madrid, Spain|pages=|isbn=8470398555, 9788470398551|oclc=}}
*{{cite book |author=Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe |author-link=Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala |editor=Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacucho |title=El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno |trans-title=The First New Chronicle and Good Government |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPy78ZxOo28C&q=Felipe+Guam%C3%A1n+Poma+de+Ayala |volume=2 |year=1980 |orig-date=1615 |location=Caracas, Venezuela |language=es |isbn=84-660-0056-9 |oclc=8184767 |ref=refGuamanPoma1615}}
* {{en icon}}{{cite book |author={{aut|Feldman, Heidi Carolyn}} |authorlink=Heidi Carolyn Feldman|year=2006|chapter=|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=IUeT3eoU7VUC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Black rhythms of Peru: reviving African musical heritage in the Black Pacific]|editor=|edition=|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|location=Middletown, Connecticut|pages=|isbn=0819568147, 9780819568144|oclc=}}
*{{cite book |author=Harris, Max |title=Carnival and other Christian festivals: folk theology and folk performance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgWOD2ZT_A4C |series=Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture |year=2003 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin, United States |isbn=978-0-292-70191-5 |oclc=52208546 |chapter=The Sins of the Carnival Virgin (Bolivia)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgWOD2ZT_A4C&pg=PA205 |ref=refHarris2003}}
* {{es icon}}{{cite book |author={{aut|Fortún, Julia Elena}} |authorlink=Julia Elena Fortún|year=1961|chapter=|title=[http://books.google.com.bo/books?ei=dkyfSs-GMYn4zAT01vDcBg&id=lcVYAAAAMAAJ&dq=La+danza+de+los+diablos+%3A+danzas+populares+bolivianas La danza de los diablos]|editor=Ministerio de Educación y Bellas Artes|edition=|publisher=|location=La Paz, Bolivia|pages=|isbn=|oclc=}}
* {{es icon}}{{cite book |author={{aut|Frisancho Pineda, Ignacio}} |authorlink=Ignacio Frisancho Pineda|year=1999|chapter=|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=XXMTAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s La diablada puneña]|editor=|edition=|publisher=|location=Lima, Peru|pages=|isbn=|oclc=}}
*{{cite book |author=Salles-Reese, Verónica |title=From Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana: representation of the sacred at Lake Titicaca |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFNMgrfXsUkC |edition=1 |year=1997 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin, United States |isbn=978-0-292-77713-2 |oclc=34722267 |ref=refSalles-Reese}}
* {{es icon}}{{cite book |author={{aut|Santa Cruz, Nicomedes}} |authorlink=Nicomedes Santa Cruz|year=2004 |chapter=|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ysqz9XsfczYC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Obras Completas II. Investigación (1958-1991)]|editor=|edition=First Digital|publisher=LibrosEnRed|location=|pages=|isbn=1597540145, 9781597540148|oclc=}}
*{{cite book |author=Santa Cruz, Nicomedes |author-link=Nicomedes Santa Cruz |title=Obras Completas II. Investigación (1958-1991) |trans-title=Complete Works II. Investigation (1958-1991) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ysqz9XsfczYC |series=Obras completas, Nicomedes Santa Cruz |volume=2 |year=2004 |editor=LibrosEnRed |language=es |isbn=1-59754-014-5 |ref=refSantaCruz2004}}
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==External links==
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* [http://www.minculturas.gob.bo/index.php Cultures Ministry of Bolivia] {{es icon}}
* [http://www.minculturas.gob.bo/index.php Cultures Ministry of Bolivia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011044830/http://www.minculturas.gob.bo/index.php |date=2009-10-11 }} {{in lang|es}}
* [http://www.carnavaldeoruroacfo.com/acfo.html Folklore's Group Association - Oruro] {{es icon}}
* [http://www.inc.gob.pe/ National Culture Institute - Peru] {{es icon}}
* [http://www.carnavaldeoruroacfo.com/acfo.html Folklore's Group Association - Oruro] {{in lang|es}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090118152107/http://www.inc.gob.pe/ National Culture Institute - Peru] {{in lang|es}}


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A Diablada dance squad passing through the streets during the Carnival and Bolivia.
GenreFolk dance
InventorPre-Columbian Andean bolivian, civilizations
Year1500s
OriginAltiplano region, Bolivia, South America

The Diablada, also known as the Danza de los Diablos (English: Dance of the Devils), is an Andean folk dance performed in Bolivia the Altiplano region of South America, characterized by performers wearing masks and costumes representing the devil and other characters from pre-Columbian theology and mythology.[1][2] combined with Spanish and Christian elements added during the colonial era. Many scholars have concluded that the dance is descended from the Llama llama dance in honor of the Uru god Tiw,[3] and the Aymaran ritual to the demon Anchanchu, both originating in pre-Columbian Bolivia[4][5]

While the dance had been performed in the Andean region as early as the 1500s, its name originated in 1789 in Oruro, Bolivia, where performers dressed like the devil in parades called Diabladas. The first organized Diablada group with defined music and choreography appeared in Bolivia in 1904.[2][6] There is also some evidence of the dance originating among miners in Potosi, Bolivia,[7] while regional dances in Peru and Chile may have also influenced the modern version.

History[edit]

Pre-Columbian origins[edit]

Ancient drawing of the Collasuyus.
Depiction of a Collasuyu party in the 17th century book Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno of Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala.

Bolivian historians claim that the Diablada originated in that country, and that Oruro should be named as its place of origin under the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity policy promoted by UNESCO; Bolivia has also claimed that performances of the dance in other countries are cultural appropriation.[8][9] Bolivian historians currently maintain that the Diablada dates back 2000 years to the rituals of the Uru civilization dedicated to the mythological figure Tiw, who protected caves, lakes, and rivers as places of shelter. The dance is believed to have originated as the Llama llama in the ancient settlement of Oruro, which was one of the major centers of the Uru civilization.[10][11] The dance includes references to animals that appear in Uru mythology such as ants, lizards, toads, and snakes.[12][13][14] Bolivian anthropologist Milton Eyzaguirre adds that the ancient cultures of the Bolivian Andes practiced a death cult called cupay, with that term eventually evolving into supay or the devil figure in the modern Diablada.[15]

Due to syncretism caused by Spanish influence in later centuries, Tiw was eventually associated with the devil; Spanish authorities also outlawed several of the ancient traditions but incorporated others into Christian theology.[16] Local and regional Diablada festivals arose during the Spanish colonial period and were eventually consolidated as the Carnaval de Oruro in the modern city of that name.[10]

...The Spanish banned these ceremonies in the seventeenth century, but they continued under the guise of Christian liturgy: the Andean gods were concealed behind Christian icons and the Andean divinities became the Saints. The Ito festival was transformed into a Christian ritual, celebrated on Candlemas (2 February). The traditional llama llama or diablada in worship of the Uru god Tiw became the main dance at the Carnival of Oruro....

— Proclamation of "Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" to the "Carnival of Oruro", UNESCO 2001

Chilean and Peruvian organizations suggest that since the dance has roots in Andean civilizations that existed before the formation of the current national borders, it should belong equally to the three nations.[17] Some Chilean historians concede that the Diablada originated in Bolivia and was adopted for Chile's Fiesta de La Tirana in 1952, though it is also influenced by a similar 16th Century Chilean tradition called Diablos sueltos.[18]

Some Peruvian historians also concede that the dance originated in Bolivia but was influenced by earlier traditions practiced across the Altiplano region, including some specific to Peru.[19][20] The Peruvian version, Diablada puneña, originated in the late 1500s among the Lupaka people in the Puno region, who in turn were influenced by the Jesuits; with that dance merging with the Bolivian version in the early 1900s.[21][22] Scholars who defend the Diablada's origins in Peru cite Aymaran traditions surrounding the deity Anchanchu that had been documented by 16th Century historian Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.[4][23] There is also a version of the Diablada in Ecuador called the Diablada pillareña.[24]

Spanish influence[edit]

"Struggle of the Diablada" as performed during the Carnival of Oruro.

Some historians have theorized that the modern Diablada exhibits influences from Spanish dance traditions. In her book La danza de los diablos, Julia Elena Fortún proposed a connection with the Catalan entremés called Ball de diables as performed in the Catalonian communities of Penedès and Tarragona. That dance depicts a struggle between Lucifer and the archangel Saint Michael and is first known to have been performed in 1150.[25][26] Catalan scholar Jordi Rius i Mercade has also found similarities between the Ball de diables and several Andean dances including the similarly-themed Baile de Diablos de Cobán in Guatemala and Danza de los diablicos de Túcume in Peru.[25]

Those theories contradict the more common theory that the modern Diablada is most influenced by the Spanish practice of autos sacramentales during which the colonizers introduced Christianity to the natives of the Andes, due to differing conceptions of the devil and his temptations.[27] The autos sacramentales process has been cited as an influence on the emergence of the Diablada puneña in Peru, shortly after the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, as believed by Garcilaso de la Vega.[28] Peruvian scholar Nicomedes Santa Cruz and Bolivian anthropologist Freddy Arancibia Andrade have suggested a similar process, with the dance originating among miners who rebelled against the Spanish at Potosi in 1538 while combining the ancient ritual of Tinku with Christian references.[7][29] Andrade has also proposed a similar process among striking miners in 1904 as the origin of the modern version of the Diablada.[7]

Post-independence period[edit]

Though the traditions of the Diablada were merged with Christianity during the colonial period, the meanings of the original traditions were revived and reassessed during the Latin American wars of independence. The Altiplano region, particularly around Lake Titicaca, became a center of appreciation for pre-Columbian dance and music.[30] During the Bolivian War of Independence, the main religious festival honoring the Virgin of the Candlemas was replaced by Carnival, which allowed for greater acknowledgement of pre-Christian traditions including the Diablada. The present annual Diablada festival was established in Oruro by 1891.[31]

The first institutionalized Diablada dance squad was the Gran Tradicional y Auténtica Diablada Oruro, founded in Bolivia in 1904 by Pedro Pablo Corrales.[32] That squad established a counterpart called the Los Vaporinos in Peru in 1918.[33] A squad from Bolivia was invited to travel to the Fiesta de la Tirana in Chile in 1956, and that country's first established squad was called Primera Diablada Servidores Virgen del Carmen, centered in Iquique.[34] In 2001, the Carnaval de Oruro was declared one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, along with the Diablada and 19 other dances performed at the festival.[35] In 2004, the Bolivian government awarded high national honors to the Gran Tradicional y Auténtica Diablada Oruro for its 100th anniversary.[36]

Choreography[edit]

Diablada dancers in Puno, Peru.

In its original form, the dance was performed with music by a band of Sikuris, who played the siku. In modern times the dance is accompanied by an orchestra. Dancers often perform on streets and public squares, but the ritual can also be performed at indoor theaters and arenas. The ritual begins with a krewe featuring Lucifer and Satan with several China Supay, or devil women. They are followed by the personified seven deadly sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Afterwards, a troop of devils come out. They are all led by Saint Michael, with a blouse, short skirt, sword, and shield. During the dance, angels and demons move continuously. This confrontation between the two sides is eclipsed when Saint Michael appears and defeats the Devil. The choreography has three versions, each consisting of seven moves.[37]

Music[edit]

A partiture of a Diablada tune.
1862 partiture of a Diablada tune named Déjame by the composer Froilán Zevillano of the Poopó Province in Oruro, Bolivia.

The music associated with the dance has two parts: the first is known as the March and the second one is known as the Devil's Mecapaqueña. Some squads play only one melody or start the Mecapaqueña in the fourth movement "by four".[37] Since the second half of the 20th century, dialogue is omitted so the focus is only on the dance.[38]

Regional variations[edit]

Diablada Puneña (Peru)[edit]

Diablos from Puno, Peru.

The Diablada Puneña originated in modern Peru with the in the Lupaka people in 1576, when they combined tenets of Christianity from the autos sacramentales with ancient Aymara traditions.[4][23] Some additional influences from the cult of the Virgin Mary were added in the following century.[22] The Peruvian version of the Diablada was quite different from the Ururo-based Bolivian version until the two merged at the Fiesta de la Candelaria in 1965. However, the Peruvian versions continue to feature homegrown figures like Superman, American Indians, ancient Mexicans, and characters from popular films.[39]

The costumes used in the Peruvian Diablata also include influences from Tibet as well as elements from pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures such as Sechin, Chavin, Nazca, and Mochica.[4] Homegrown masks were produced and sold in Peru starting in 1956.[40] Music for the dance was originally performed on the siku,[41] but that was later replaced by percussionists known as Sicu-Morenos.[39]

Fiesta de La Tirana (Chile)[edit]

In Chile, the Diablada is performed during the Fiesta de La Tirana in the northern region of that country. The festival attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually to the small village of La Tirana.[42] The festival is descended from the celebrations for the Virgin of Carmen that began in 1540.[42]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kartomi, Margaret J.; Blum, Stephen (1994). Music-cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions. p. 63. ISBN 9782884491372.
  2. ^ a b Real Academia Española (2001). "Diccionario de la Lengua Española – Vigésima segunda edición" [Spanish Language Dictionary - 22nd edition] (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 30 November 2009. Danza típica de la región de Oruro, en Bolivia, llamada así por la careta y el traje de diablo que usan los bailarines (Typical dance from the region of Oruro, in Bolivia, called that way by the mask and devil suit worn by the dancers).
  3. ^ "Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Information related to Intangible Cultural Heritage". UNESCO. 2001. Retrieved 3 October 2009. The town of Oruro, situated at an altitude of 3,700 metres in the mountains of western Bolivia and once a pre-Columbian ceremonial site, was an important mining area in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Resettled by the Spanish in 1606, it continued to be a sacred site for the Uru people, who would often travel long distances to perform their rituals, especially for the principal Ito festival. The Spanish banned these ceremonies in the seventeenth century, but they continued under the guise of Christian liturgy: the Andean gods were concealed behind Christian icons and the Andean divinities became the Saints. The Ito festival was transformed into a Christian ritual, celebrated on Candlemas (2 February). The traditional llama llama or diablada in worship of the Uru god Tiw became the main dance at the Carnival of Oruro.
  4. ^ a b c d Rubio Zapata, Miguel (Fall 2007). "Diablos Danzantes en Puno, Perú" [Dancing devils in Puno, Peru]. ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America (in Spanish). VII (1): 66–67. Archived from the original on 1 April 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
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  17. ^ Moffett, Matt; Kozak, Robert (21 August 2009). "In This Spat Between Bolivia and Peru, The Details Are in the Devils". The Wall Street Journal. p. A1. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
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  19. ^ Américo Valencia Chacon (3 September 2015). "Candelaria una propuesta frente a una gran responsabilidad" (in Spanish).
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  21. ^ Cuentas Ormachea 1986, pp. 35–36, 45.
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  31. ^ Harris 2003, pp. 205-211.
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