EL CORRICORRI DE PONGA
Esto que nos montes de Ponga ya va años jallé alcordanza d'un baile llamáu corricorri, no igual al mui nombráu d'Arenas de Cabrales pero sí con dellas semeyanzas.
De Tolivia, aldea hoi fracasada, era nacíu en 1913 Ramón Frutoso Llamazales Díaz, qu'en avientu de 1993 díxomi tovía cómo era esi corricorri de Ponga.
Paecíase al d'Arenas en que vinían a ser más las que bailaban que los que bailaban, nas comparanzas con otros bailes, nos blincos de los hombres, no guapu, no cansáu qu'era, en qu'en Arenas l'hombre da muchos semixiros y daque güelta completa sobre sí, en que las muyeres llevan plantas nas manos y más que nada en qu'el hombre sigui a las mozas y estas a elli. En Tolivia el contenidu eróticu del baile era muchu más claru qu'en Arenas.
Bailábase, según Ramón, en Viboli, Casielles, El Cándanu y Viegu, que son pueblos de Ponga.
Otros hombres y muyeres de Ponga y Amieva que sabían el nombre eran Julia Vidarte María (de La Caviella), Gerardo Díaz Llamazales (de Bores), Mariano y Benina Toribio Rodríguez (Tanda), Teresa Pérez Díaz y Salvador Pérez Cueto (Vallimoru), Manuela Fana Álvarez (Pen, Amieva) y Gabriel Iglesias Domingo (San Inacio; llamó-y correcorre).
Hai que dicir tamién que Ramón Huerta Posada cita ente los bailes llaniscos "la danza, el pericote ó corre-corre, la giraldilla, el fandango, la gallegada, las seguidillas...".
Y qu'el novelista Antonio Quintana Menéndez, llaniscu de Puertas de Riegu, escribe que na función del Cristo del Camino (La Portiella, Llanes) "aquí en un corrillo se baila el corre corre, baile indígena de nuestra comarca y desconocido en todo el resto de la provincia".
Y qu’en Cos (Mazcuerras, Cantabria) el correcorrecorre, con un hombre y una mujer o dos mujeres llamábase asina "porque era un baile deprisa". Y que en Zurea (Tsena) "el corricorri" era un xuegu de rapazos y mozos.
Todo esto saquélo nel llibru Tradiciones curiosas de Asturias, ([Llanes], 1994, páxinas 20 a 28 ).
El casu e que agora sé que Julio de Prado Reyero (Sahelices de Sabero, 1927 - Lleón, 2014), na páxina 67 del llibru Cistierna y sus comarcas (Cistierna, 1980), citó un baile asemeyáu y homónimu que diz que se bailaba en sitios que tan mui cerca de los pueblos de Ponga que dixi:
«Recogemos un manojo de leyendas propias de nuestra tierra, que nos han sido legadas por la tradición.
»En las zonas limítrofes con Asturias existía un baile conocido por «Corricorri» heredado sin duda de los celtas, en el que los guerreros y nobles solían escoger sus esposas. Se reunía a las mujeres más hermosas de todas las tribus ataviadas con los mejores vestidos. Bailaban para cautivar al caballero y lo rodeaban hasta que lo conseguían. De esta manera el elegido escogía a su futura esposa».
Ramón
El corricorri de Ponga
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Muy interesante! Ya me parecía a mí que era imposible que la tradición se conservase únicamente en un solo pueblo. Muchas gracias por el impresionante trabajo que llevas realizando en favor de la cultura asturiana, Ramón.
THE PONGA CORRICORRI
Thing is, in the mountains of Ponga I documented the memory of a dance called corricorri, not exactly the same as the very famous one from Arenas de Cabrales albeit with several similarities.
In Tolivia, a village now failed, was born in 1913 Ramón Frutoso Llamazales Díaz, who in December 1993 could tell me still about this corricorri from Ponga.
It was similar to the one from Arenas since more women than men took part in it, as opposed to other dances, also in the jumps that men performed, in how beautiful it used to be, how exhausting, in that the male, in Arenas, performs many half - spins and a few full spins, in that women were holding plants in their hands and basically in the fact that the guy follows the girls and the other way round, too. In Tolivia the erotic content of the dance was far more evident than in Arenas.
It used to be danced, Ramon claimed, in Viboli, Casielles, El Cándanu and Viegu, these being villages in the municipality of Ponga.
Other men and women from Ponga and Amieva who knew the name were Julia Vidarte María (from La Caviella), Gerardo Díaz Llamazales (from Bores), Mariano and Benina Toribio Rodríguez (Tanda), Teresa Pérez Díaz and Salvador Pérez Cueto (Vallimoru), Manuela Fana Álvarez (Pen, Amieva) and Gabriel Iglesias Domingo (San Inacio; he called it correcorre).
It is worth noting as well that Ramón Huerta Posada quotes among the dances from Llanes "the danza, the pericote or corre-corre, the giraldilla, the fandango, the gallegada, the seguidillas...".
Also, the novel writer Antonio Quintana Menéndez, from the village of Puertas de Riegu in Llanes, writes that in the day of the Cristo del Camino (La Portiella, Llanes) "here in a ring the corre corre is performed, a dance native to our area and unknown in all the rest of the province".
And let it be noted too that in Cos (Mazcuerras, Cantabria) the correcorrecorre, with a man and a woman or two women was so called "because it was a rushed dance". And in Zurea (Tsena) the "corricorri" was a game for boys and teens.
All this I published it in the book Tradiciones curiosas de Asturias, ([Llanes], 1994, pages 20 to 28 ).
The thing is, now I learn that Julio de Prado Reyero (Sahelices de Sabero, 1927 - Lleón, 2014), in the page 67 of the book Cistierna y sus comarcas (Cistierna, 1980), he mentioned a similar dance bearing the same name who he says was performed in locations in Leon very close to the villages in Ponga I just mentioned:
«We are collecting a handful of legends from our land, which have been rendered to us by tradition.
»In the areas bordering with Asturias a dance used to exist known as «Corricorri» preserved no doubt from the Celts, in which warriors and noble men would pick their wives. The most beautiful women would be gathered from all the tribes wearing their best attires. They would dance to captivate the knight and they turned around him until they accomplish it. In this fashion the chosen one would choose his future wife".
Ramón
THE PONGA CORRICORRI
Thing is, in the mountains of Ponga I documented the memory of a dance called corricorri, not exactly the same as the very famous one from Arenas de Cabrales albeit with several similarities.
In Tolivia, a village now failed, was born in 1913 Ramón Frutoso Llamazales Díaz, who in December 1993 could tell me still about this corricorri from Ponga.
It was similar to the one from Arenas since more women than men took part in it, as opposed to other dances, also in the jumps that men performed, in how beautiful it used to be, how exhausting, in that the male, in Arenas, performs many half - spins and a few full spins, in that women were holding plants in their hands and basically in the fact that the guy follows the girls and the other way round, too. In Tolivia the erotic content of the dance was far more evident than in Arenas.
It used to be danced, Ramon claimed, in Viboli, Casielles, El Cándanu and Viegu, these being villages in the municipality of Ponga.
Other men and women from Ponga and Amieva who knew the name were Julia Vidarte María (from La Caviella), Gerardo Díaz Llamazales (from Bores), Mariano and Benina Toribio Rodríguez (Tanda), Teresa Pérez Díaz and Salvador Pérez Cueto (Vallimoru), Manuela Fana Álvarez (Pen, Amieva) and Gabriel Iglesias Domingo (San Inacio; he called it correcorre).
It is worth noting as well that Ramón Huerta Posada quotes among the dances from Llanes "the danza, the pericote or corre-corre, the giraldilla, the fandango, the gallegada, the seguidillas...".
Also, the novel writer Antonio Quintana Menéndez, from the village of Puertas de Riegu in Llanes, writes that in the day of the Cristo del Camino (La Portiella, Llanes) "here in a ring the corre corre is performed, a dance native to our area and unknown in all the rest of the province".
And let it be noted too that in Cos (Mazcuerras, Cantabria) the correcorrecorre, with a man and a woman or two women was so called "because it was a rushed dance". And in Zurea (Tsena) the "corricorri" was a game for boys and teens.
All this I published it in the book Tradiciones curiosas de Asturias, ([Llanes], 1994, pages 20 to 28 ).
The thing is, now I learn that Julio de Prado Reyero (Sahelices de Sabero, 1927 - Lleón, 2014), in the page 67 of the book Cistierna y sus comarcas (Cistierna, 1980), he mentioned a similar dance bearing the same name who he says was performed in locations in Leon very close to the villages in Ponga I just mentioned:
«We are collecting a handful of legends from our land, which have been rendered to us by tradition.
»In the areas bordering with Asturias a dance used to exist known as «Corricorri» preserved no doubt from the Celts, in which warriors and noble men would pick their wives. The most beautiful women would be gathered from all the tribes wearing their best attires. They would dance to captivate the knight and they turned around him until they accomplish it. In this fashion the chosen one would choose his future wife".
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¡Gracias!
Sucede algo parecido con el pericote, baile que, con diferentes versiones, se practicaba en muchos municipios y que, al igual que el corricorri, tendió a continuarse en los sitios más poblados (centro del concejo de Llanes uno y Arenas de Cabrales otro) de una zona conservadora alejada de los grandes núcleos modernizadores.
Ramón
Sucede algo parecido con el pericote, baile que, con diferentes versiones, se practicaba en muchos municipios y que, al igual que el corricorri, tendió a continuarse en los sitios más poblados (centro del concejo de Llanes uno y Arenas de Cabrales otro) de una zona conservadora alejada de los grandes núcleos modernizadores.
Ramón