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The Department of Celebration and Animeros Gang El Campillo de los Jiménez announced the recovery of the 'Dance of Passover, which last held 35 years ago in the hall of the chapel of the parish.
This form will take place on Saturday 26 December at 20 hours.
The room is a room Campillo attached to the chapel with side steps, which allowed people of all villages will be concentrated there to enjoy these dances, which were made from Christmas Day until the Day of the Innocents.
To El Campillo de los Jiménez people moved on foot from as far away as the Glens of Moratalla, the Llano de los Pinos, El Ventorrillo Luis, and other cities, like Canara, Canada de Canara or Valentine, to participate in these celebrations, that had resonance at the regional level.
During the dances, which is bidding for dance or because he put the hat of 'innocent' to one of the participants also carried out the 'games', which consisted of small plays, humorous and satirical in tone , in which was engaging the public on the fly.
"We aim to recover one of the most festive cultural traditions rooted in the garden of Cehegín, since time immemorial until 35 years ago, to disappear and can not be known by new generations of cehegineros" he assured in April.
He added that "we are very excited about this project, both the council and from the crew animeros, because we want to be transmitters of this part of our popular culture."
From the Department has appealed to all who have ever lived these dances, and all lovers of folklore ceheginero, to participate on this date, "which will go down in history as the day Cehegín which became Easter Dances at El Campillo.
In principle it is expected to perform the dance, but leaves the door open for people who want to recall some of 'games' that were made this celebration, "he informed the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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