WANKA WILLKA,
THREE GENERATIONS OF DANCE
2008
28 min.
Quechua & Spanish
Color
16:9
Stereo
ProRes / BluRay
SYNOPSIS
Dances of the Wanka Willka Folkloric Group, formed by a family of three generations of scissors dancers, are showed in this production.
After many years travelling around the world, Gabriel “Lucifer“ Hilario Huamanyalli returned to Rantay, a little village where he born, in the heart of Huancavelica, in Peruvian Andes.
Scissors dance is a traditional Peruvian manifestation, older than Spanish colonization. In the Colonial and Independence times, this artistic expression was censored because it was considered pagan for the inhuman acrobatics of their dancers.
SCREENINGS
Mención Honrosa - Concurso “Así es mi Perú” de la Municipalidad de Lima. Perú, 2008
CAST
Dancers
Maximo "Derrepente" Huamanyalli
Gabriel Hilario "Lucifer" Huamanyalli
Gabriel "Lucifer Jr." Huamanyalli.
Music
Adalberto (Violin)
Fausto (Arp)
CREW
Director: Diego Sarmiento
Screenwriter and Research: Alvaro Sarmiento
Cinematographer: Alvaro y Diego Sarmiento
Editor: Diego Sarmiento