Siklla (
Quechua for a type of plants with blue blossoms / fine-looking, elegant, beautiful, proud),
[Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)] Wayra
[ (Quechua) or Doctorcitos ( Spanish for little doctors) is a ]satirical
Satire is a genre of the visual arts, visual, literature, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently Nonfiction, non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ...
folk dance in Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
and Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
. The dance is a mockery of the Spanish lawyers of the colonial period.[Javier A. Galván, Culture and Customs of Bolivia, 2011]
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Bolivian dances
Peruvian dances
Indigenous dances of South America
Department of Cusco