In typical peasant attire, boys dress up as old men with white-haired masks, bend over in pain, wielding their canes, and slowly break into a performance. Within a fraction of a second, they spring into foot-tapping dance moves, until one stumbles and falls, and the remaining follow suit. Their pink masks representing toothless old men with wide smiles, made of wood, corn husk or clay, form an integral part of one of Michoacan’s humorous traditional dances performed by the indigenous tribe in Mexico. It is believed that after the arrival of the Spaniards in the area, the . . .
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