Between the 40 dances that has, approximately, the Group Folkloric “Jovellanos” in its repertoire, they are possible to be mentioned most significant and than they represent the different geographic zones from the Asturian region. To such aim, it is possible to mention the following ones: |
 | EL CORRI-CORRI This dance is considered like most ancestral of Asturias, having maintained with the course of the time its purity. It is accompanied with a monorythmical song (rather a romance) dedicated to the Virgin and the Boy. As musical instruments are used solely a pandero and a tamboril. Usually they dance it six women, with ceremonious steps to which during the dance it harasses a single man (denominated “bailín”), which makes gestures and you romp around them trying to call his attention, without obtaining it. The women carry in their individual hands branches of laurel like purity symbol. Its original practice is located next to the Tips of Europe, to the East of the region. |
EL PERICOTE Possibly astur is the most popular dance of folclore. The tradition locates its origin in the civilization celta or previous time, being based its practice in the llanisco municipality (Eastern zone). It is possible to be interpreted accompanied of Romance song or, although at the present time it is danced assiduously more to are of the gaita and the drum, instruments very popularized. The dancers form you triaccept (two women and a man). | 
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| LA ARAÑA y REGONDIXO It can which these two titles correspond to the two more popular dances vaqueiras, original of the “Vaqueiros de Alzada”, chaste of trashumantes people, located in western mountains of Asturias. They accompanied its dances with picaresque songs and the musical instruments more peasants, such as panderos, crótalos (great castanets), a horn (or “corno”) and payecha (synonymous of frying pan with the dentated handle and that made sound rubbing a key of great size). |
EL XIRINGÜELU y JOTA ASTURIANA Perhaps they are these two habitually the most interpreted dances in all the Asturian region, specially in celebrations and romerías. The gaita (cleat) and the drum are accompanied musically with. | |
| DANZA MARINERA y DANZA DE LA SIEGA As their titles indicate, they are dedicated to the own tasks of the sea (the fishing) and of the field, respectively. Workings very rooted in the region astur. Both with allegorical songs are interpreted which they represent. |
It is possible to review that all the dances are interpreted with appropriate and agreed clothes with which they represent, own of the different zones and customs. The Association of Choirs and Dances “Jovellanos” has ten models different from regional customes to interpret folclore of its region. Luis Sergio Fernández Folclorista y RRPP del Grupo "JOVELLANOS" |
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