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While working on a cruise ship I got to visit Cartagena many times. I would see many people dressed up like this and would wonder what the story is behind this.
They are mimes doing their act solo or in pairs. They stand in the street completely still, silent, looking as inanimate as possible — like a statue — until a passerby drops a coin in the receptacle that sits on the ground before them. Then, WHAM! the black faced actor springs into action, doing a set sequence of movements that makes up his show.
Depending on what props they have, members of this group mostly act as if they are fishing or cutting wood, and one, who is dressed to suit, does a pirate routine.
