With a parade stuffed with colour and to the rhythm in their drums, the teams of Uruguay took to the streets on Friday, January 6, to have a good time San Baltasar on an evening of party during which custom will take priority over the contest of the standard “Llamadas.” of carnival, which is able to happen in February.
In a Montevideo virtually empty because of the summer season vacations, the sundown turns the sky orange and provides upward thrust to the previous ritual: in a nook a spherical is shaped, the drums seem.
Those are the gatherings of the comparsas, feature teams of Uruguayan candombe that, within the preview of the “Llamadas de San Baltasar”, follow their rhythm because of the “custom” of that first parade inherited from the colonial generation, when at the of Kings the African slaves celebrated that saint.
That is what L. a. Facala’s rope chief, Alexander Cortés, highlights to EFE all over a practice session, who explains the adaptation between this example and that of the “Vintage Calls”, which this yr will happen on February 10 and 11.
“One is the contest and the opposite is the only with probably the most custom, the place everybody is going out to the streets to have a good time as a result of this is a party of San Benito and San Baltasar that has been held for the reason that time when candombe began,” says whoever hopes Might or not it’s a “party” of “peace” and “solidarity.”
The director of Uganda, Rodrigo Abreu, expresses himself alongside the similar strains, for whom the date is “crucial.”
“Our workforce may be very known with (the Calls of) San Baltasar and for the brand new generations who already take this January 6 ritual this is a nice accountability the place we need to at all times say provide,” he issues out.
On the other hand, each Abreu and Cortés additionally allude to the arrangements for February, when, in a “extra structured” method and with different costumes, the troupes will compete within the legit Llamadas parade.
“We’ve been making ready since (remaining) April,” says Abreu, to which the Ugandan member Martín Rorra provides that this yr the motto of his presentation might be “To racism, colours” and can honor social activists and leaders. Afro-Uruguayans Amanda Rorra and Agapito Carrizo.
“For us you will need to to put the troupe within the face of those problems,” says Rorra, who main points that the colours constitute “variety,” versus racism as a structural drawback that “privileges some other people over others according to their pores and skin colour.” or ethnic beginning.”
For his section, Cortés says that L. a. Facala named its proposal “Ancestral 2023” in homage to the African tribes that originated candombe and can search to vindicate in its parade the standard characters of the troupe: “gramillero”, “mamavieja” and “brush holder”.
“The theme of conventional characters (…) is in part what’s being misplaced. So they’re as though they have been 3 tribes that give protection to, there’s a tribe of warriors, one in all hunters and a royal guard,” describes who highlights {that a} unique rhythm will accompany the display during which the basses “play” extra.
EFE
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