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The Quinceañera, or Quince Años is a young Latina woman's celebration of her fifteenth birthday, which is celebrated in a unique and different way from her other birthdays. The word is also used to refer to the young woman whose 15th birthday is being celebrated (analogous to the word "cumpleañera" for "birthday girl"). The closest equivalents to the Quinceañera in the English-speaking world are the Sweet sixteen (birthday) or, in more affluent communities, a debutante ball at the age of eighteen. In some cases, the birthday girl has a choice of a quinceañera or a car.

Celebration

The celebration marks the transition from the childhood to womanhood of a Quinceañera. It serves as a way to acknowledge that a young woman has reached maturity and is marriageable.

If the quinceañera is Catholic, the festivities begin with a Thanksgiving Mass (Misa de Acción de Gracias), at which the quinceañera arrives in formal dress of a pink hue, accompanied by her parents (padres), godparents (padrinos), seven maids of honor (damas) and as many chamberlains (chambelanes) as she wishes. After the Mass, the younger sisters, female cousins and friends of the quinceañera pass out party favors and the quinceañera leaves her bouquet in an altar to the Virgin Mary. The Mass is followed by a party either at the quinceañera's home or in a banquet hall leased for the occasion. At the party, the quinceañera dances a special dance with her father and male relatives. Then her boyfriend, or male friend, dances the remaining part of the dance with the birthday girl.

In Cuba, it may include a choreographed group dance, in which 16 couples waltz around the Quinceañera, who is led by one of the top dancers of her choice or her boyfriend. Sometimes the choreography includes four or six other skilled dancers called Escortes (escorts). They are allowed to dance around the Quinceañera and are usually dancers adept at improvisation whose movements are intended to highlight the central couple for the spectators. They are also allowed to dress in different colored tuxedos.

Fifteenth birthday celebrations were very popular in Cuba until the late 1970s. The custom entered the country partly via Spain, but its major influence was French. Wealthy families, who could afford to rent luxurious halls at country clubs or 4/5-star hotels and to hire choreographers, were the actual pioneers of Quinceañeras. Although lower-income families could not afford the same display of wealth, they too started to celebrate Quinceañeras, which they called Quinces. Those celebrations usually took place at the home of the Quinceañera or at the more spacious house of a relative.

While this traditional celebration is still practiced nowadays in Latin America and Hispanic communities in North America, it is sometimes observed by other events that focus more on the quinceañera's wishes (e.g. world travelling). In some cities, the more proper Baile de las Debutantes (Debutants' Ball) still survives.

Expansion in Cuban society

While wealthy families celebrated this event at luxurious ballrooms, lower-income individuals, especially the young, would watch through the colonial-barred windows and enjoy it from the outside. Servants and other employees to the wealthy families, who were involved in the catering, were probably the first to import the custom into the rest of the population.

Sometimes the entire family would save through the years for this important event. The fifteenth birthday celebration acquired such an importance in the life of a young girl that a popular saying goes: "There are two most important things for a woman: her fifteenth and her wedding." Luis Carbonell, a nationally known figure who transmitted the average Cuban way of life, expressed this cultural custom through his Los quince de Florita.

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