Here is the schedule of events for Ezpalak 2009

May 23, Saturday, Pamplona

17:30 Parade through the streets of Old Town.
18:00 EZPALAK International Dance Festival in the Burgos Square. Teams from Basque Country and abroad.

* In case of bad weather the festival will be held in the auditorium of the Salesians.
May 24, Sunday, Eibar

12:00 Parade of the XLIV-Euskal Jaia from Urkizu to Untzaga square.
12:30 EZPALAK [...]

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Ezpalak 2009 will be focused on pre-classic dance forms

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 [...]

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Ezpalak 2009 will be held on May 23 and 24

Organized by groups Duguna and Kezka, the International Festival of Traditional Dance Ezpalak will be held on May 24 and 23 in Pamplona and Eibar respectively.
Ezpalak is an international festival of traditional dance. First realized in 2006 in Eibar and the focused subject was the sword dances. In 2007 was held in Pamplona and Eibar [...]

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Ezpalak 2008: we danced with arcs

May 31, 2008, was the first day of Ezpalak, the International Festival of Traditional Dancing. The day started raining in Pamplona and it did impossible the parade through the streets of the Old Town as it had been raised and also that the festival itself could take place in the Plaza de los Burgos, as [...]

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A draft on the festival on the garland dances

Ezpalak, The international festival on the garland dances
31st of May of 2008 in Pamplona – 1st of June of 2008 in Eibar
Pamplona, saturday, 31st of May
17.30: Parade with all the dance groups through the streets of the old part of the town, pipers, flute players…
18.00: The begining of the international [...]

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In Ezpalak 2008 the festival will deal with garland dances

The international festival of the traditional dances Ezpalak 2008 will be about garland dances. The festival was organised for the first time in 2006 and at that time the festival was about sword dances. In 2007 it was about stick dances, and this year it will be about garland dances.
Thus, this [...]

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The blog on the festival Ezpalak is ready

This is the blog on the festival Ezpalak in three languages, this one in English, and the other two in Basque and in Spanish.
Ezpalak is an international festival on the traditional dance which is going to celebrate in Pamplona and in Eibar, organised by the dance groups of Duguna and Kezka. [...]

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