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Encyclopedia ID 1424

Bottle Dance

Also known as Danza de la botella

Bottle Dance: photograph by Overkill53
Photo: Overkill53, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

A dancer performs polka-like steps to harp music while a stack of bottles is balanced on her head, growing taller as the dance goes on.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Paraguay, Spain.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of The Americas: Andes and South America.

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