Los Matachines

Los Matachines are ritual dance dramas performed in Hispano, Pueblo and Genizaro (mixed Spanish and Native) communities throughout New Mexico. This film by Lucia Duncan was produced for the Museum of International Folk Art's "Musica Buena" exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico which runs through 2021. The film features footage from a historic Matachine performance in Bernalillo, along with modern day versions performed in Corrales and Picuris Pueblo, and at the San Antonio de Padua Mission. Commentary by noted Folklorist Enrique Lamadrid. If you would like to support our work recording disappearing traditional culture, please donate at: thewisdomarchiv...

[@reedandful]

This is the real old New Mexico still going strong!

[@FiresGrace]

I do remember seeing them dance for the Fiestas de San Lorenzo in Bernalillio when I was a very young man, all us kids were scared shit less of the one with the red headdress and red cape...

[@crystalnieto8880]

When I was younger I used to dance with the matachines from our friends and family members.

[@jjxbonnie2740]

I'm gonna dance this year

[@psalm91.777]

@@jjxbonnie2740 lucky 🤠

[@jjxbonnie2740]

@@psalm91.777 ya

[@psalm91.777]

@@jjxbonnie2740 I wish I could see them dance again I am living in California now and I miss home New Mexico

[@jjxbonnie2740]

@@psalm91.777 oh I love watch them dance I was the dummer boy in 2017

[@psalm91.777]

Thank you sir you said it right there, the Spanish that came here , home New Mexico, did in fact change and we are the result 🙂

[@GloryBeToGodForever]

*”Jesus* said to him, *I Am* the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the *Father* except through *Me.”* John 14:6

[@jacobocastillocervantes8427]

Es igual como la danza de a pie

[@mattanderson5921]

Tlaxcalans

[@mattanderson5921]

A'ho southern brothers

[@jesusmendoza2414]

Genízaro lol …mestizos