Sword dances, sitck dances and dances with arcs were the subjects of the first three Ezpalak festivals. This year we left the tools on one side and we will focus our attention on the feet. Dances of character (danses de caractérer) or preclassic dance forms will be the protagonists of the festival that will celebrate the 23 and May 24 in Pamplona and Eibar.
Traditional dances that will be shown at the Festival Ezpalak 2009 share among other features a refined technique of dance, a choreographic alphabet comprising steps of great difficulty and exigent execution, reference guides for the combination of steps, development procedures based on the choreography construction of phrases through a combination of steps and the union of words leading to dance, or a teaching methodology that allows the formation stages of future dancers and dancing masters.
No doubt the sight of these dances in the festival will allow us to visualize the matching characteristics better than through any textual explanation. In this year’s festival we will see traditional dances of Provence, Scotland, Zuberoa, Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia.
