CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 

In this thesis, the effect of teaching a Peruvian Indigenous dance on non-Indigenous people is explored, to preserve cultural values and promote relationships between humans and nature. The participants learned the value and the content that the indigenous Quechua dances carry within, demonstrating it on the day of their presentation with the typical costumes. As one student said "I have never danced, but I feel good about dancing this dance, I really mean dance with steps and meaning, and not jumping from one side to the other as other people do. I noticed that these words motivated other students to say the same without any shyness, nor any shame for never having danced before. They were very excited to have learned an indigenous dance; meanwhile, I felt great happiness and pride in them for having realized a new and challenging project during the school year. I began to think about what a positive change in the students this project had produced; they compared it with what they had done in other years, and could feel a strong satisfaction in their work as a group which they said they would never forget. This was very profound for me, and made me very grateful.

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The activities in the dances produced Indigenous cultural values such as respect for nature, knowing how indigenous people obtain everything to survive from nature, such as the harvest, the rains, the colors obtained from the flowers or the Ichu or grass to make the rounds of a suspension bridge and the four elements of life for the indigenous man. An example was "the experience of three children from the Catholic school who traveled to Peru in December, to learn about the grass or "ichu" and the Peruvian culture. Students of the dance academy traveled to Peru to learn more about how wool dyeing is performed and the variety of colors that appear in the costumes. Participants demonstrated cross-culturalization as they simultaneously learned to function alone, socially communicating with integrity and mutual respect, based on reciprocity without expecting anything in return, causing reflection of the wealth of Indigenous knowledge and its survival in the contemporary world.

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In the educational and artistic field, I am a person who learns from experiences, which is and will be the project of my life. Because when seeing the limitations that were presented, such as speaking a different language and others, I was motivated to feel the satisfaction of reaching other people and that they learn and value the Peruvian culture. Also, I took steps that led me to deepen studies of Indigenous dance and dance education, the knowledge that helped me to have a more open and intellectual vision of how more educational projects of Indigenous arts and the preservation of their legacy could be promoted. . But above all, this experience nourishes me to continue being a human being who contributed to the conservation of our cultural values, ancient cultures and our nature or mother earth. To live in a peaceful world in harmony with our brothers. with the cosmos and nature.

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My recommendations are that the Indigenous dance teachers recover or preserve Indigenous dances that later will no longer exist, and through the dissemination of these can be promoted in greater quantity. Teachers who want to teach Indigenous dances can search for music that encourages and inspires students to participate and thus continue to spread this legacy. At the same time, the dance steps can be taught with or without games, but I recommend using games so that students can connect quickly.

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The Indigenous communities of Peru are becoming extinct every day due to capitalism; it is time that we all come together to help them survive, and recognize their rights. We visitors always have to be careful when we are in an Indigenous community because there are beliefs that are highly valued, so with their authorization, we can visit them and live with them, in the best of cases learn their customs, their knowledge and then return this help with the same affection that they offer you and thus preserve the respect and harmony that mother earth offers.