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In recent years, Sorgunea has made an intense reflection on the revitalization of the Basque country and on the Basque culture. Based on the study of cultural life, he has proposed the basis for developing the strategies of the Basque culture. Analysis and strategy, two essential tools for those of us who live in chains every day.
In the field of culture, Sorgunea has distinguished three categories: the one made in Basque, the one made in Spanish and the one that does not use words. They have warned that the future of Euskera and Basque culture is played in the realm of verbal culture. That should be a priority field of work. Secondly, there would be dance, visual arts and, in general, cultural activities that are not warm.
This categorization is a proposal, an attempt to plough the field of Basque culture and to order the terrain to continue sowing. It's an invitation to discuss, and I'm glad about that. I do not know whether we will be able to respond to the challenge, but the categorisation and hierarchical organisation of the priorities that will come as a result have been put on the table, in the eyes of all.
From the point of view of dance, I would say that over the past twenty-five years there has been a classification of cultural activity. Perhaps the categories would have been more diffuse, hierarchization was not explicitly presented, but in practice, it has become clear to us that non-verbal culture has not been a priority. Dance has been treated as a second-level cultural activity, we have detected it very well.
The proposed categorization of Sorgunes may imply the consolidation of dance at this second level. For dance lovers it can be difficult to swallow, but at least it has been formulated and we have the opportunity to debate. What we have lived through so far has been worse, we have not made it clear, but we have not taken it into account in practice.
Looking around the Basque country, we cannot understand what has happened in Ireland with the Gaelic. They know they're stubborn when they want, but we think they've been indifferent to language. It seems that they have done an organization and hierarchy of categories very different from our own. Music and dance are solid pillars and symbols of Irish culture. At the same time as they lost their language, they have spread their non-verbal and Spanish culture to the whole world. In our environment, language is desirable and impossible, leaving music and dance aside. Let us show the Irish that they could do both at once.
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