Joan Maragall says in certainly one of his poems that “the sardana is essentially the most lovely dance of all of the dances which might be made and unmade”; Despite the truth that a couple of years in the past it appeared that it was a declining custom, immediately many observe a revival of Catalan standard dance, as evidenced by the inflow within the dance halls.
In the small city of Argilaga (Tarragona), which barely has 200 inhabitants, they’ve set to work to contribute to the restoration of the sardana and have resumed their intensive course this yr, which was already held each July earlier than the arrival of the covid.
“We had been afraid that nobody would come,” says Sefa Torné, a sardanista and coordinator of the Argilaga Cultural Association; Years earlier than, small teams of ten or twelve individuals had gathered, however they believed that having stopped the course for 3 years might have harmed them.
To their astonishment, it was not like that, 70 individuals responded to the decision they’d made by spreading posters and messages on social networks within the surrounding cities. “Many individuals really feel that the sardana is one thing very a lot ours they usually need to declare it,” says Sefa, who has noticed among the many members that they collect each Thursday from 7:00 to eight:00 p.m. within the city home. “And it is not simply one thing for older individuals,” she continues, since most of those that have signed up are between 30 and 55 years previous.
Sardana class on the Casal de ArgilagaAssociació Cultural l’Argilaga
The academics of the Casal Tarragoní, a non-profit cultural entity that ensures the transmission of Catalan tradition with particular emphasis on the sardana, have provided to provide courses freed from cost to those residents, amongst whom there are additionally girls and boys.
dance within the sq.
The goal of this course, explains the coordinator, is “so that everybody can get into a hoop” when they’re in a sq. the place sardanas are being danced and they aren’t afraid to do it out of ignorance. “The standard a part of the sardana, of dancing within the streets and squares, is essentially the most lovely”, says Sefa Torné, excited to have the ability to share this dance through which she has change into a contest skilled.
Seeing the success that this course has generated and the curiosity he perceives amongst residents, not solely from his city, Torné believes that “in main festivals, councils ought to rent coblas to have the ability to dance with reside music, as was achieved earlier than”; Well, he assures, that if they aren’t practiced every now and then, this custom runs the danger of being misplaced.
Likewise, he believes that it also needs to be taught in main faculties. Children are the longer term”; he assures that it’s the finest solution to transmit the tradition to the next generations.
For now, in Argilaga this Thursday they may end the course with a dinner and their very own dance of sardanas, with the plan to proceed dancing all yr spherical and get collectively once more subsequent July to proceed studying “the complete dance of a individuals who need and transfer ahead holding arms”, returning as soon as once more to the poet of the Renaixença.
the track of summer season
Although Torné believes that within the case of Argilaga it had nothing to do with it, the truth that this yr, in Catalonia, the summer season track is neither by Quevedo, nor Aitana, nor Bizarrap, nor Rosalía, is inescapable, neither is it pop, nor reggaeton; is a sardana with a celebration air, ‘Coti x coti’, by the Matarón duo The Tyets.
Twelve million views on Spotify, three and a half million views on YouTube and a whole bunch of hundreds of makes use of on TikTookay have made individuals dance sardanas once more in Catalan nightclubs and festivals.
Perhaps it’s an ephemeral fad, however the actuality is that curiosity in conventional Catalan dance is probably at its finest within the twenty first century and increasingly generations are inspired to be taught the steps and rhythms of the sardana to bounce to the sound of the cobla.
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