Videos tagged with "traditional dance"

Jose of Callaqui School Dancers3 [02:26]
While touring Ecuador (near Quito) in May of 2005 with MacEwan in Edmonton, Alberta. we visited a local school Jose of Collaqui School in Collaqui. MacEwan donated money for the purchase of traditional attire as part of the Nuestra Identidad Project (to educate youth about traditional culture and restore personal and community values). As a display of their gratitute, they performed a traditional dance for us.
Tags: Jose of Collaqui School, Collaqui, Ecuador, macewan, traditional dance, culture, costumes, travel

Jose of Callaqui School Dancers2 [02:02]
While touring Ecuador (near Quito) in May of 2005 with MacEwan in Edmonton, Alberta. we visited a local school Jose of Collaqui School in Collaqui. MacEwan donated money for the purchase of traditional attire as part of the Nuestra Identidad Project (to educate youth about traditional culture and restore personal and community values). As a display of their gratitute, they performed a traditional dance for us.
Tags: Jose of Collaqui School, Collaqui, Ecuador, macewan, traditional dance, culture, costumes, travel

Traditional Dancing in Ecuador [02:23]
Video footage from the traditional dance performance at the mitad del mundo park
Tags: Ecuador, traditional dance, dance, mitad del mundo

Drunk Indios Dancing in Cuicocha [03:51]
Free video about drunk Indios dancing traditional dance near the Cuicocha lake in the Otavalo region. The men and women stomp in circles until they change direction. The moderator in the yellow shirt decides when it is time to turn. Others follow and have fun, while drinking very irresponsibly. Free food and drinks is offered at the festival, becasue all of those people are farmers and traders who organize this celebration by themselves. It is a social event for celebrating many things, including the holly mountain peaks and the protected lake. This cool video was created by epSos.de in Cuicocha of Ecuador. The indigenous people of the Americas are the original inhabitants of North and South America. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, Indios or latinos. Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain. Latino Americans are very racially diverse as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities. Indigenous peoples in Ecuador are the groups of people who were present in what became the South American nation of Ecuador when Europeans arrived. Otavalo, capital of Otavalo Canton, is a largely indigenous town in the Imbabura Province of Ecuador. Otavalo was an area made up of farming communities due to the rich volcanic soils in this area, but with the growth of ...
Tags: drunk, indios, native americans, dancing, latinos, dance, men, women, party, cuicocha, otavalo, ecuador, indians, tribe, festival, celebration, birthday

Ecuadorian Traditional Dancers [00:52]
Ecuadorian Traditional Dancers.. Dancing to Hava Nagila. Quito, Ecuador. August 14, 2010
Tags: ecuador