Flying skirts (16 images)

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In the poor neighborhoods of this Andean city, wrestling Cholitas represent the Aymara indigenous women on a theatrical, partially comic and partially tragical choreography of their struggle as women to get ahead and gain respect on a mestizo and male chauvinist society. At the same time they attract and keep the audience interested in the fights swinging their long skirts and braids and shaking their bodies with movements whose sexual connotation is often more than just a hint.
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