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HARTZA:
California Basque Dance Group |
ZER | WHAT: A joint dance group that performed Nafarroa dances
together at several Basque festivals and the N.A.B.O. Convention at Jaialdi 2010.
It was an opportunity to learn some dances and meet new friends.
Is 2011 viable?
The
2011 NABO convention will be held in Buffalo, WY on July 22 -
24th. In past Buffalo conventions, San Francisco has been the
only California dance group and klika to make the trip. We are
planning on attending, but I thought this would be a good
opportunity to allow dancers from all over CA participate as
Hartza without committing any one group to the expense of
sending a full dance group. This would be a double benefit if
we could also have klika members from Chino and Bakersfield join
SF in WY.
Hartza has been invited to perform in Montreal September 16-18.
The president of the Montreal Euskal Etxea was very impressed
with the level of cooperation that Hartza showed and the quality
of the performance we gave in Rocklin, and would love to have us
dance at their 15th Anniversary celebration and the NABO
meeting. They are willing to house the dancers if the dancers
can pay their own way there (about $600 per person, roughly). I
think this would be a great opportunity for our dancers, and
show them that hard work gets its rewards.
What do you think? We have a good performance to start off with
from 2010. I suggest we keep what we like best about that and
add to it. We have plenty of time, as we didn't start
practicing together until March last year. Email
president@nabasque.org
Related links:
Clips at
Baztan Dances Workshop
+ story at
euskalkazeta.com
Current projected performances:
tba
Coordinators:
Bakersfield: John Goyenetche
Chino: Jeanette Duhart
Los Banos: Ann Erreca
San Francisco: Valerie Arrechea |
Flag of the Baztan region of Nafarroa |
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Hartza performance:
25 minutes |
Follow the links for music & learning video clips
Aunitz urtez
(30 seconds).
Boys enter into a circle saying "Aunitz Urtez!" Then
the go right into
Zortzi Jauzi (3:00)
the Baztan version (the 8th is for we
Basques who live in the Diaspora!) Exit as the girls
enter...
Axuri Beltza (3:00). Girls come out to perform this
variation (it is 40 years old now). Remain there in a
circle as the boys enter to join them for...
(3:30). Girls transition where they are in the
circle into the first part of Iribas, then transitions into
...
Iribas (Kokin version) (7:00)
Music:
Kokin Iribas
(mp3)
Video:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Boys dance to girls
Jota step 1
Jota Step 2 |
Arin arin 1
Arin arin 2
Arin arin 3
>transition to second part
Baztango
zortzikoa (1:00). This dance is from the
dancers moving through the streets of Arizkun in groups of
four, to form the lines for ...
Sagar dantza
(2:00). Lines
face each other, then we spread out into a circle for ...
Tafallako
Jota (3:24) Group all together in an oval.
Group exit:
Josetxo music
(mp3).
The group re-assembles in two lines (girls
in one line and boys in left line).
T-shirt idea: approximately $10 each (to be worn out/not tucked
in)
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While
the bear is now gone from the Basque Country, it remains
a mythical figure in traditional Basque culture,
because of its power and seeming magic (its winter hibernation)
when it would come back to life.
Related links:
Clips at
Baztan Dances Workshop
+ story at
euskalkazeta.com |
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Hartza group practice
(Los Banos, CA April 2010)
Baztango mutil dantzariak
Related links:
Clips at
Baztan Dances Workshop
+ story at
euskalkazeta.com
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