Panamanian art

Museum of Contemporary Art:

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) is the only Museum of Contemporary Art that exists in Panama. It is a non-governmental organization (NGO) non-profit, which has legal personality.

Panama City is more than Tall Buildings within it also has a rich culture presenting architectural styles such as Baroque, Gothic, Art Deco, and the neoclassical style Bellavistismo has had a very good speech in Our Country.

To know some Panamanians Painters:
Alvarado:

Olga Sinclair

Alfredo Sinclair:

David Solis:

Trujillo:

Mucipal Palace:

Place where he signed the November 3, 1903, the Act of Separation of Panama from Colombia. In 1909 it was rebuilt and is admired the beautiful sculpture executed by Italian Enrico Biaga, Milan, and a beautiful Panamanian Oil Ivaldi, which represents the act of blessing of the Panamanian flag, in December 1903

Sculptures:

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Municipality House

Built during the first third of this century, was restored by the Municipality of Panama to represent an excellent example of neoclassical architecture of the time and inside you can see on the floor the outline of the city's colonial wall.


Santo Tomas Hospital

The third Hospital Santo Tomas, known as the Great Elephant White (due to the huge buildings for the time), was inaugurated by the visionary statesman, Dr. Belisario Porras, on September 1, 1924, under a bright sun, and an extraordinary attended by more than 4000 people

PANAMA NATIONAL PALACE

Was Ordered to Build under the rule of the First President of Panama Don Manuel Amador Guerrero in 1905, concluding its construction in 1908, the director of the play was the engineer by engineer Genaro Ruggieri and interiors were painted by muralist Panamanian Roberto Lewis. was President of the Republic for a time to enable the Palacio de las Garzas, today is the National Palace houses the Ministry of Government and Justice.

The Painted Hall Nationality By the Panamanian Roberto Lewis

Panama Government House

The December 27, 1913 were opened the envelopes containing the proposals for the construction of the State House (now Governor of the Province of Panama) and the Palace of Art (now Office of Administration).

Although it was not the lowest, the proposal was awarded to R. W. Hebard & Co., as the authorities considered not only the price but also got interested in the time spent, materials used and warranty.

The plans were designed by architects H. G. Heath and J.C. Wright, who also were awarded the mismos.Cabe inspection noted that the Government House has not changed. It is still almost unchanged with a fountain in the front and the shield of Panama placed in the middle of the floor above. Both the Government Palace and the Arts were built of reinforced concrete.

Administrative Building Of The Faculty of Law and Political Science from The University Of Panama:

The National Law School was established in 1918 and operated until 1930, when it was his last graduation.

In 1931 the doctors Demetrio A. Porras and Americo Valero founded the Escuela Libre de Derecho, then formalized by Executive Decree No. 55 of 1933. This school ceased to exist two years after being established at the University of Panama and former students came to constitute the initial group of our faculty.

Gorgas Memorial Laboratory

The creation of the Gorgas Memorial Institute, is an initiative in 1921 by Dr. Belisario Porras, President of the Republic of Panama to pay honor to the illustrious Dr. William Crawford Gorgas, who eradicated yellow fever on the Isthmus of Panama allowing the construction of Canal. This dream culminated in 1928 when it inaugurated the facility on Avenida Justo Arosemena. In 1929 he created the Scientific Library of the Institute, in which lie the original publications of all the leading researchers of the Institute. These facilities were run by the United States of America until 1990, and its orientation was basically conducting research in Tropical Medicine.

The National Archives

The National Archives Building was the first structure built in Latin America to host public documents generated Panamanian state administrations. Opened on August 15, 1924.

Gil Ponce Palace of Justice

National Theatre

In 1904, Act 52, the new Republic of Panama ordered the construction of the National Theatre. He commissioned the Italian architect Genaro Ruggieri Theatre design and the Government Palace. The Duke and Arias Company was responsible for the construction and the supervisor of the work was the engineer Harmodius Florencio Arosemena. It was inaugurated on October 1, 1908, coinciding with the inauguration of Don Jose Domingo de Obaldía as President of the Republic.

Panamanian Interior Painted By Robert Lewis

balcony

The Altar of St. Francis of Assisi Church

SAN FELIPE NERI CHURCH

Plaza Bolivar

Plaza Herrera

Canal Museum

Folk music

Folklore has an important place in the social life of every people, is the traditions and customs of a country.

Our country has a rich folklore and is more known in the central provinces, Los Santos, Herrera, Cocle, Veraguas.

Among the folkloric expressions of a people include: dresses, dances, customs, music, instruments, food, legends and crafts.

Traditional Music:

Country music, known locally as "folk music", is located mainly in the central provinces of Panama (Cocle, Herrera, Los Santos and Veraguas). It is mainly divided into four expressions of folklore: the cumbia, the tenth, marjoram and tamborito.

Tamborito Santeño. 

The tamborito is a dance-based singing clapping and drums seventeenth century. In the province of Los Santos is grown tamborito called santeño, more Spanish influence, with rich colors, beautiful choreography and measured pace.

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This is danced with a group tamborito maximum of three figures : walk, three hits and back or rollover .

The walk is the time of deployment and grace and splendor to the woman, while the man woos her with gestures , genuflections , individual turns , etc. .

The woman ends the walk starting at the drums to a peal of these , man is placed on the left and follows it , both recede and advance a few steps back (greeting) to finally make the three hits along with the drum, turn around with a string starts in this delivery is made between the couple, both staring into the eyes turn a lap or two around a center , sometimes the man is almost static and is the woman who goes around him, she then hand back to walk, to repeat the dance or to retire and entering other dancers.

At times it can be one of the two being alone on the wheel, but not for long, then another dancer enters and continues the tamborito .

It is customary to begin the tamboritos with an invitation to one of the men makes the " cantalante " from there go to dance without fixed order , always a couple at a time.

La Cumbia

The Panamanian cumbia is a musical rhythm and isthmus folk dance Panamá.Surge musical syncretism of blacks from Africa, indigenous yespañoles (Andalusian and Galician) during the conquest and colonization. He is a recognized symbol of the Panamanian national folklore. It is mostly grown in the Azuero Peninsula and Veraguas Province. However, it is a musical genre spread over Panamanian geography resulting in the existence of a large number of variants ranging from the purely black influence, passing those with indigenous elements, to the predominantly European features .

Folk music

Folk music of Panama is the result of interbreeding that occurred between Spanish traditions, Indian and African.
Used as instruments: snare drum, drum bidder, the box, the churuca, the triangle is, accordion, female voice, chantey male voice.

The most popular dances are: the point, the atravesao and bullerengue. There are other dances as: the diablicos, the grandiablos, the Congos, the Cucuas, the bull, the columbine, dance Cuenecué or black muzzles and indigenous dances (besides being one of the most famous in Panama).

The Point 

The point includes in its melodic form and choreography. It has a composition created specifically for the dance , executed by one partner that boasts grace , precision and grace . It is of pure Spanish descent and is considered the dance and musical genre most beautiful and elegant of all the Isthmus of Panama .

Choreographic Basic Steps and Shaping
When you start dancing man should be leaning on the floor with your left knee on the floor and your right knee up and holding her hand to the woman . Woman walks , holding hands , the sound of drums around the man still holding her hand .
She returns to its original position and look at your partner with love , He stops, stands to its original position and looks at her with a flirt , they hope to change the drum to take three steps back and start dancing with the following steps described below are repeated in order, two or three times :

The Ride : The man and the lady described a wide circle as if each occupying the ends of a diameter.
The Zapateo : In which the dancers , face to face, this españolísima boast skill of a change of music running .
THE Escobillao : that widely separates the couple , as it often runs a backward movement ,
The Seguidilla : With whom are moved toward each other to rotate with much serenity and refinement at the center of the circle until instructed to change and start again Walk phase.

The Bullerengue

The bullerengue or bullarengue is a musical genre and dance from the Caribbean coast of Colombia and the Darien Province, Panama.

It is run mainly by the descendants of runaway slaves who inhabited the Palenque de San Basilio (Colombia), the Palenque Mamoní or Santiago del Principe and the Mandingo tribe of Kuna Yala (Panama), which extended to the historic Darien.
In Panama, the bullerengue or bullarengue is a music and dance genre itself of African descendants in the province of Darien, dating from the colonial era.

The Congos

The Congos is a culture, dance music genre and African colonial mainly concentrated in the Costa Arriba and Costa Abajo of Colon Province, Republic of Panama, which are characterized by violent and erotic expression to dance, and it almost always associated kind of mime and theatrical representation, whose infamous historical episodes themed black trade, slavery and the resulting black rebellions during the time of the conquest and colonialism. Also gender is considered the oldest drum dance of the Isthmus of Panama.