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what are the "gitanes"?
what are the "gitanes"?
The “Ball de Gitanes” is a traditional dance that takes place in Catalan and Valencian populations. During the S.XIV, Europe was affected by a plague that forced a large part of the population to emigrate to the south; so in Catalonia came tribes of gypsies from Poland and Hungary that were distributed throughout the regions. Within their festivals, which were celebrated for Lent, on Carnival day they danced the so-called "Gypsy Dance". Each year they incorporated a part more to the dance and, to be able to be, more difficult, to be able to compete between the different peoples, until a time when the melody was adapting to our instruments.
the characteristic dress
the characteristic dress
our experience with "ball de gitanes"
our experience with "ball de gitanes"
During these days of Erasmus, we offered different workshops to teach French people our culture and traditions. One of these activities was ball de gitanes, which consisted of learning and dancing a Catalan traditional dance. To teach the French this dance, a boy and a girl, Marc and Maria from the Ball de Gitanes of La Garriga, came to teach us.
The workshop lasted two hours, during these two hours the teachers showed us a typical dance that they do during the festivities, to start the workshop we put with our French partner and then step by step we learned all the moves of the complete dance, until at the end of the workshop we knew how to do the complete dance and we did it with music.
It was an enjoyable activity, and we all had a great time. We learned a lot about this dance and its characteristics.
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