And now what?
- Neither in the prohibition, in the authorisation, in the advice, nor in the granting of aid. Our authorities, those in charge of health, those in charge of culture, and nobody else, do not agree with the dance.
In Navarre, Iparralde and the CAV, in recent days severe emergency measures have been imposed to deal with the pandemic throughout the Basque Country, and the dance sector, again, adrift, without knowing what to do and how to act. No one remembered dance when they began to authorize activities. Dance has been in a very critical situation since March. No one paid her attention when we had to develop protocols to recover the activities of the dance. And when the cutbacks and bans come back, nobody has remembered dance.
Who are we?
It takes into account sport, hospitality, education, transport or funerals, in each one it explains what and how it can be done, what is recommended, what is not... it explains, but dance does not exist. And you should keep that in mind, yeah. Dance is one of the most widespread activities of our society, in different styles and modalities (Basque dance, contemporary dance, ballet, jazz, ballroom dancing, hip-hop,...), which maintains the space of activity (dance group, dance school, academy, physical group of leisure, cultural group of women, retired club, business center, etc. ).
Responsibility behind us
The responsible attitude of the dance sector to the pandemic has been exemplary. First suspend activities, offer the necessary means to maintain the mood and joy of life in the hardest moments of confinement, and after making a great effort with online sessions. We have developed protocols for the recovery of activities without any help and information, in order to obtain resources (beyond kisses and classrooms, seeking alternatives to spaces that were denied to us), a great effort has been made, groups have been reduced (tripling the effort...). And when some of us with efforts and difficulties of all kinds had just regained the practice of dance and others wanted to reinvent it, the cutbacks and bans return. And here we are, still unable to guess what we have to do with dance activities, if we leave all or more arrangements (are there?) He couldn't decide to try.
So, yes, if dance is who, for good offices and for the favors, authorities and responsible technicians. Include dance in your agenda!
The idea that we in the dance world often repeat is that dance is ephemeral. The Elhuyar dictionary gives as a counterpart to "ephemeral" English: ephemeral, destructive, perishable, ephemeral, ephemeral, perishable, perishable, ilaun. I don't remember who I first read that idea... [+]
Moor Krad
By: Ertza company.
When: 3 October.
Where: In the Muxikebarri room of Getxo.
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Two years later I met the work Moor Krad, in which members of the company Ertza created and premiered the piece. So in 2022, I tried to... [+]
Transmisioa eta dantza taldeetako erreleboa aztertu nahi izan dugu Dantzan Ikasi topaketetan, eta gazte belaunaldiek lan egiteko ereduak ezagutu nahi izan ditugu “Gazteen parte-hartzea euskal dantzan” mahai inguruan: Eder Niño Barakaldoko... [+]
