{{Short description|Festival and satirical dance in the Andes, Peru}} '''Chukchu''' (Quechua for malaria)<ref>Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)</ref> is the name of a festival<ref name=mincetur>{{cite web |url=http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/TURISMO/OTROS/inventario%20turistico/Ficha.asp?cod_Ficha=6226|title=Festival de Chukqcho|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher=mincetur|accessdate=March 2, 2014}}</ref> and a satirical dance<ref name=lopez>Miguel A. López Loli, Chukchu: Danzando con la enfermedad, Chukchu: Dancing with the disease, Paediatrica 7(1) 2005</ref> of the Andes region in Peru. The festival is held annually on August 25 in the Santo Tomás District of the Chumbivilcas Province in the Cusco Region. The dance is performed on festivals dedicated to the patron saints ''(fiestas patronales)'' of communities in the provinces of Anta, Canchi, Chumbivilcas, La Convención and Paucartambo.<ref name=lopez/> The figures represented in the dance are sick persons, nurses, doctors, assistants and mosquitos.<ref name=lopez/> Members of the Chukchu troup may wear sickly masks, that represent plantation house slaves who became infected with malaria in the jungle. Their choreography includes throwing flour on crowd in imitation of the spread of disease.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Officer) |first=Karen Catchpole, CWO (Chief Writing |date=2023-07-05 |title=Inside the Virgen del Carmen Festival in Paucartambo, Peru |url=https://trans-americas.com/virgen-del-carmen-festival-in-paucartambo/ |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=Trans-Americas Journey |language=en-US}}</ref>
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Category:Festivals in Peru Category:Peruvian dances Category:Indigenous dances of South America Category:Department of Cusco