Mexico: "All Saints Day, Veracruz" Jay Dunn 72 images Created 15 Nov 2009
MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Watch the beautiful video here: https://vimeo.com/jaydunn/xantolo
Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn.
Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper for a special two-part feature story.
Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn.
Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper for a special two-part feature story.
