Norka Rouskaya
Russian Ballerina Norka Rouskaya and friends
by The Colca Specialist
Peruvian history is full of curious historical facts.In November we celebrate here in Peru The Day of The Dead and almost everybody goes to the cemetery to pay a visit to their beloved ones so I decided to write about a historical event that took place in Lima in those times.
Early in the
morning of Sunday 4th of Novembre 1917,inside the general cemetery of Lima an
insolit event happened.
On Saturday ,at 8
pm, Alejandro Ureta and Cesar Falcón payed a visit to Mr Pedro García Irigoyen
who was de inspector of the cemetery in order to ask him for permission to
visit the cemetery at night. They said that the russian ballet dancer Norka Rouskaya who did several presentations
in Lima wanted to take some impressions of the city. Irigoyen accepted and he
called the administrator of the cemetery Mr Valega to provide all the
facilities.
After 1am two autos
arrived to the cemetery and the visitors got inside the place and visited the
main streets. When they got into the main street of the cemetery,the violinist
Mr Cáceres took out its violin from its case. Some candles were light on and
the ballet dancer Norka Rouskaya removed all her clothes she had on. Totally
nakes she covered herself with a very transparent gray clothe and started to
dance Chopin´s dead march imitaing in certain way what it was done by the
french ballet dancer Isadora Duncan who danced at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in
Paris,France.
The group of
visitors was amazed with the dance but the administrator Mr Valega protested
and avoided the show to continue because the permission was just for a visit.
Lima woke up the
next day with the news that the cemetery had been profanated profanated. The
next day the Prefect of Lima at 11am ordered all those who participated in such
event to present themselves in his bureau to make clear all this situation.
The newspapers
publish many articles related to this incident . The bishop of Lima and the
eclesiastical authorities prepared themselves to consecrate again the cemetery
because it had been profanated.
Jose Carlos
Mariategui, Cesar Falcón,Juan Vargas Gamarra,Kuis Emilio León ,the violinist Mr
Caceres ,Norka Rouskaya along with her mother went to the bureau of the prefect
to declare and give their respective statements about the situation.
Norka Rouskaya said
that it was not her intention to “profanate” the cemetery but in a moment
during the visit,she felt inspired and started dancing just for some minutes
impressing all the visitors gravediggers included.
She also said that
that was the result of a high spiritual artistical spirit whose main intention
was not to profanate the cemetery.
The Canonical laws
neither the civil laws could prohibit her to dance inside the cemetery.
According to the canonical laws the cemetery is only profanated when inmoral
situations take place or when human blood is spilled.The penal law said the
same.
In those years it
was a complete scandal. Nowadays that situation would have been considered
diferently.
Peruvian vedette
Mariella Zanetti does a video clip inside the cemetery
The peruvian
vedette Mariella Zanetti did a video clip inside the same cemetery showing all
her voluptuosity.
Mariella Zanetti besides from being just a
vedette now works in Risas de America as a comic actress and as a program
conductor.
Mariella Zanetti has several fans in Arequipa
so if you want to see the video clip it is here available.
The Colca Specialist
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