Victoria Santa Cruz

Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra (born 27 October 1922; died August 30, 2014[1]) was an Afro-Peruvian folklorist and music person. Her father left for the United States when he was six, but returned when he was thirty-five. She states he spoke "exquisite English" and loved opera. Her Mom spoke only Spanish and had a love of dance.[2] Victoria Santa Cruz would go on to be called "the mother of Afro Peruvian dance and theatre."[3] Along with her brother, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, she is credited as significant in a revival of Afro-Peruvian culture in the 1960s and 1970s. They both came from a long-line of artists and intellectuals. For her part she is said to have had "Afrocentrism" influences in her view of dance trying to discover "ancestral memory" of African forms. She helped to found the Cumanana company.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Obituary in El Comercio
  2. ↑ "An Interview with Victoria Santa Cruz" From "Callaloo" Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2011 via Project Muse
  3. ↑ SFIAF
  4. ↑ Heidi Carolyn Feldman (2006). Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 49–62. ISBN 978-0-8195-6814-4.


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