Cinco de Mayo At Old Ranch Page Two
Meanwhile Back In The Lounge
Mike enjoys the activities
The Staff Gets The Giggles
It's A Family Affair
The Staff Had As Good A Time As Us!
Two Hundred Members And Guests Joined The Frey
More Food
The Old Ranch water glasses looked great with the Sun shining through
them
The band went table to table
Anna and Bob
Let The Dancing Begin
Did you know? - The Jarabe Tapatío, known in English as
the Mexican Hat Dance, is the title of the musical piece and the dance
that accompanies it, which is accorded the title of the "national dance
of Mexico". In the Spanish language, jarabe is a sort of dance (though
the word is homonymous with one meaning "syrup" or "elixir"), and the
adjective tapatío indicates something from Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The musical piece, a medley of Mexican folk music, was composed in the
19th century by a professor of music in Guadalajara, Jesús González
Rubio.
The Jarabe Tapatío dance in its standardized form was first
choreographed by the Mexican Felipa Lopez, in the early twentieth
century to celebrate a government-sponsored fiesta that commemorated the
successful end of the Mexican Revolution.
Since then it has become a folk dance popular throughout Mexico and the
Southwestern United States as a symbol of the national pride and honor
of the Mexican people.
You go left and I'll go right
Did you know? - The dance tells the story of love and courtship. It can be performed either by a couple or a group of couples. A charro, dressed in the traditional charro suit, a three-piece suit composed of a vest, jacket, and pants bearing silver buttons down the seam), makes initial courtship gestures to la china (wearing the traditional China Poblana outfit). They flirt throughout the beginning of the dance, during which time the man attempts to woo the woman with his zapateado (stamping and tapping) and his machismo. Just as he has impressed the woman, he becomes drunk with glory, and is shooed away as a borracho (an inebriate), but ultimately, he succeeds in conquering the china, throwing his hat to the ground and kicking his leg over his partner's head as she bends down to pick it up. The two do a triumphant march to a military tune called a diana, and the dance ends with a romantic turn or the couple hiding their faces behind the man's sombrero in a feigned kiss.
