 WHAT
IS JACCHIGUA?
The members
of this dance group carry out their work full of national
identity.
Jacchigua comes from the word “jacchima”
in quichua. It was the festivity that the patrón
(landlord) would give to his workers in the patio of
the hacienda, after having collected the grain and put
away the seeds.
Husicamas (house workers), hausipungueros (share-workers),
would enjoy a day of festivities with the landlord and
his family along with food, drinks, dance and music.
Jacchigua is a cultural institution
created to keep the cultural and human patrimony of
the ecuadorian nation; it carries the need to create
conscience and artistic habits, stimulating the search
of values with identity, trying that this type of education
would turn out to be the foundation to better the family
interaction. The dance creates human persons that are
useful, it units families, it creates national conscience,
thus, reaching the pleasure of dance as an element of
human coexistence.
Jacchigua is “life with dignity”, full of
colors, wrapped in necklaces and shawls, ponchos, blouses
embroidered with threads wet with sweat and tears of
joy, it is the reflection of a few for many. Jacchigua
is Ecuador, with its feelings and sensitivity, because
we have patrimony and cultural memory, inherited from
taitas and mamas.
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Only
viewing, touching, savoring, screaming and clapping
will you encounter the significance of our sensitivity.