With the celebration of the seventh annual Saucito Primer Viento National Traditional Dance Festival, the festivities honoring the Lord of El Saucito began this Sunday and will continue until March.
Due to the large number of dance groups from across the country—an estimated 1,500 dancers—the Mexico City Traffic and Mobility Police deployed an operation to direct traffic and partially close roads around El Saucito. This led to Metrored buses suspending part of their routes, and other bus lines seeking alternate routes, leaving passengers waiting at their usual stops.
The procession of dancers began around noon in Plaza del Carmen, proceeding along Mariano Escobedo, Álvaro Obregón, Damian Carmona Avenue, and Fray Diego de la Magdalena streets until reaching the Sanctuary of the Lord of Saucito, where the public enjoyed dances such as the Chichimeca, Aztec, Feather, Matachines, and Apache.
Although the dance festival is considered the beginning of the festivities in honor of the Lord of Burgos—as the Lord of El Saucito is also known—an event had already taken place the previous weekend within this framework: the Second Meeting of Traditional Chichimeca Dance Musicians, as part of the Saucito Primer Viento cultural week.
It’s worth noting that during the National Traditional Dance Festival, the careers of active dancers were recognized, such as 70-year-old Pedro Salazar Mendoza, who proudly proclaimed his motto: “I will continue dancing until my heart stops beating…”
Brandon Camacho was also recognized for his career and contribution to the sonería (musical tradition) of the Chichimecas dance in the state of San Luis Potosí; he composed several sones, most notably “El Saucito.”
Source: oem
