VICTOR ESTRADA CREADOR de la danza de los CAPORALES
Durante más de 30 años fue impulsor del Gran Poder. Junto a sus hermanos creó la coreografía y vestimenta del baile del CAPORAL SAYAS



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Caporales is a typical Bolivian dance. It is a legacy of the Spanish colony where caporales were Spaniards born in the colonies. After the Spaniards left both countries, caporales began as a dance to show that legacy. The dance however has a prominent religious aspect. One supposedly dances for The Virgin of Socavon (patroness of miners) and promises to dance for three years of one's life. According to researchers at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, the caporales is a Bolivian dance that came from the Tundiki and Saya, Afro Andean dances of the Yungas region, Bolivia and were presented formally as caporales in the religious festival of Gran Poder, La Paz Bolivia en the 40's by the Escalier family.

It has been popularized greatly and is also danced in neighboring countries such as Peru and Chile, and the Lake Titikaka region of Peru has also claimed its origin but research in Universities of Peru and Bolivia have not found any evidence of Africans in the highlands of Peru or of any formally organized Caporales groups with a registered and long history like in Bolivia.