Angela Pastor decorates a palm to be used during Palm Sunday processions at a shop in Elche, eastern Spain, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat A .
The ceremonies see brotherhoods of “nazarenos,” or penitents, with tall conical hats, monkish robes and hoods carrying or escorting the magnificent carriages through ancient streets of cities and towns nationwide.
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It’s played at weddings, at school dances, at concerts after doors open, at rodeos, at senior nights, at birthday parties, at ball games, at bar and bat mitzvahs, at dive bars where dancing is encouraged. For years, it was inescapable, now less so but it emerges every once in a while, yielding its unpretentious head, ready to help the rhythmically challenged engage in a communal dance without revealing their uncoordinated secrets. There are no foot movements, after all,
leaving its practitioners to rely entirely upon the flailing of their arms and hips.
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The Macarena, notable for its easily learned and reproduced dance moves and the 1993 song “Macarena” that inspired the choreography became a staple of 1990s popular culture, dubbed by VH1 as the greatest one-hit wonder of all time