Agirre and Marin say that many times they have debated the role of women in Basque dance, how to reflect on dance from feminism... But they have acted fairly informally: in the tragic aftermath of the trial, in the preparations, in the friends ... The School of Feminist Empowerment of Vitoria-Gasteiz created the possibility of organizing a workshop and addressing the issue. "We saw that there was a time to see the role of women in creating a space within the Basque dance, to speak and reflect."

Its intention is to encourage reflection through exercises, but the theory also works. "We see that we have a tremendous deficit when it comes to dances. We don't know where our dances come from, and why today we dance them like this." They think that ignorance doesn't help to make a change in the face of tradition, to build a feminist pathway from the dance world.

History, difficulties, costumes, experiences

At the moment, the workshops have been divided into four main areas. The objective of the first session is to locate the participant. Concepts such as tradition, culture, gender or feminism are the ones that develop them, and they also occupy a historical place. The second analyzes the difficulties women have had to go to the plaza and analyzes the cases that have occurred in different locations. In addition, they promote a reflection on the trends of men and their role in the participation of women.

In the third session they try to work on the topic of garments. They explain the theory a little and analyze the clothing, and through the exercises they create garments for the representations created from the gender perspective. They also accommodate the gender trends observed in carnivals. The last session is used to talk about the experiences of each of them. The goal is to create exercises so that everyone starts working on the subject in their groups.