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Bajada de la Virgen de las Nieves 2005 - Santa Cruz de La Palma

La Danza de los Enanos (The Dwarfs’ dance)

	© Luisa Castro

Historians and investigators concur with the idea that it was the Corpus Christi celebration the very origin of the Enanos de la Bajada (the Dwarfs of the Bajada)
What is more, it has been demonstrated that they, together with gigants, were present at the crowning of Elizabeth II in 1833.

However, we had to wait until 1905 to see this ceremony, worldwide famous and known. And it was thanks to Miguel Salazar Pestana who conducted and suggested this ceremony. So, the Danza de los Enanos we can enjoy nowadays, has been taking place for a century.

The ceremony is split up in two parts. Firstly, the 24 dancers just organize a kind of slow parade, dressing up as Vikings, students and so on. Then, they go inside a house and… in just a couple of seconds the music gets faster and more active, more amusing. People start to take pictures. And at the door of the house we can see the dwarfs, sporting their triangular huts. And the famous and well-known song of Domingo Santos Rodríguez, composed in 1925, starts to be heard.

The secret of such a transformation from men into dwarfs is not revealed under no circumstances and, by no reason, by the dancers. They defend it. In some cases, the participation in the dance runs in the family, being inherited from parents to children. Of the 30 dancers, 24 will surely dance and 6 others just in case any of the other dancers cannot dance. More than half of them had already danced in previous Bajada de la Virgen.

THE DWARFS' DANCE IN 2005


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