Michele Aguer: "The best girls also have too much grace for the Swiss dances"
- This year's masquerade is being closely analyzed by dance professor Michele Aguer Lohitzün. Lohitzün has never participated in the masquerade, as in his day men dominated. This year a mixed group of dantzaris has been presented in the Zubero masks.
In Altzürükün only the dancers have been men. Until later than in other towns. The dancer Michele Aguer Lohitzün has been her first wife, in a way pioneering, and in recent years they have gone over and over again to visit her to become her teacher.
Here are some of your views:
“Male and female dancers are very different. I don't know if you'll like everybody, but I think zuberotarra dance isn't a dance made for girls."
"I've struggled. But when you don't dance except with men and you look in a mirror, you know it's not to the extent you do it. You can do whatever you want, you never look like a child.
“The look of before is now more critical than in the past. Before they did nothing but look at the jump and frighten, the final jump was what mattered. We looked more at the use of the tools of the banderin or the gorilla than the tools of the feet. Now they look at how the dots are finite, how the group dances are well given, how the group is homogeneous, there are codes…".
Xiberoa eta Baxe Nafarroa artetik jalgiko da aurten maskarada. Ehun urteko etenaldiaren ondotik, xiberotar usaia berreskuratuko dute aurten Pagolako gazteek.
Hasi dira maskaradak Zuberoan, urteroko tradizioari jarraiki. Alabaina, tradizioak aldatu daitezkeela erakutsi dute aurten Maulen: lehen aldiz, ez da buhamerik izango. Pertsonaia horiek ijitoak ziren, eta estereotipoetatik eta arrazakeriaz antzezten zirela salatu izan dute... [+]
Herri batzuetan urtero moduko inauteriak izango direla adierazi da, beste zenbaitetan moldatu egin dituzte eta beste batzuetan bertan behera gelditu dira inauteriak. Sarrera honetan beste urteetan ospatu izan diren errituak zerrendatu ditugu, baina horrek ez du esan nahi aurten... [+]
Zamaltzain, entseinari zein laborari aritua da Joimo Arantzet (Atharrazte, 1974) hainbat maskaradetan. Etxetik jaso du dantza, Zuberoan ohikoa izan den moduan, eta seme-alabei ere transmititu die dantzarekiko maitasuna eta gaitasuna. Etxekoei ez ezik baita inguruko hainbat... [+]
2021eko Maskaradak bukatu orduko hasiko dira 2022koak. Izan ere, pandemia dela-eta Barkoxeko gazteek inauteriak neguan ospatu beharrean udan hasi zituzten iaz, eta urtarrilaren 8an Barkoxen emango diote amaiera. Astebete beranduago, urtarrilaren 16an, abiatuko dira... [+]
2020an eman behar zuen Barkoxek maskarada Atarratzerekin batera.
COVID pandemia dela eta beste kultur ekitaldi guziak bezala, kanbiamenak izango dira Xiberoan ere. Aurten Altzürüküko maskaradak zale ekuarazi baditu ere, ondoko urtean ondorioak ekarriko ditu.
