La Mojiganga

Mojiganga is a typical traditional dance from Zacualpan de Amilpas, a rural town in the Mexican hinterland. Its strength and charm is a dance practiced during weddings, a Catholic celebration in this case where love and union symbolize the meeting of the two spouses. Despite this, the dance on the contrary emulates and celebrates death, not in the macabre and sad way that we Europeans know it, but in a totally different way, where death is a companion of life, it is always present but not necessarily malevolent. This point of view is born from the union of the Catholic religion, in which death has an important relevance, and the pre-Colombian pagan religion, which on the contrary mocks and has fun with death, as if it were an entity to be respected but at the same time an equal companion of which we should not be afraid because sooner or later it will be the one to accompany us.