IBARRA-KALDU sections
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The Ibarrakaldu group is formed by many sections, like:
Dance section:
It runs from the creation of the group and nowadays is the most important section in the group. Its function, the learning and spread of the rich folklore of our land. Nowadays it’s formed by over than 80 dancers, with ages from tour years to more than forty years.
It is divided in some groups, in function of age and dancer knowledge,
with a timing and a specific trainer each group.
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Major group: The main section of the group, with 36 members with ages between 15 and
40 years. They train four hours and a half a week, divided in two days. Its repertoire incluyes more than 60 dances of the
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Junior Group (Girls): It is formed by ten girls with ages between 10 and 14 years, and they train two hours a week. Like the previous group, the dances that they perform are girl dances and some of the major group. |
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Junior Group (Boys): Recently created, it's formed by nine boys between 8 and 12 years old. They train one and half hour a week. The dances are a little bit complicated, but at the same time, they are simple dances for their age. They start with dances of the major group and incorporate some elements like blades and sticks. |
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Children Group: It is formed by 19 children with ages between 6 and 10 years, and they train an hour and a half a week. They have the smallest repertoire, what is formed by game-dances. The work with they is especially to accustom they ti take the music rhythm and to the train method. Their train are fully in Basque. |
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Mothers group: It is formed by 16 mothers and inside the group after the trains for the group 35th anniversary in 2001. It started like something casual but seeing the excitement and being asked by they, the group decided to continue with it and create another work |
Music section
It was created like a
complement of the previous section to enclose in its performances. It started
with a txistu academy to learn how to play that instrument and in the 80’s it
was created a txistu band. The musicians, against of playing instruments to
enclose the dancers in the performances, teach new students to recover and adapt
scores and indigenous instruments. For them has start a project of learning of
the different indigenous instruments trikitrixa, pandero, alboka, atabal, such
as a musical language class for childerm between 5 and 6 years.
Also exits another instruments
like bagpipe of Nafarroa, dulzaina of Bizkaia, txalaparta, txirula, thün-thün
and a fanfare, componed by some of this intruments and other like acordeón,
flute, fiddle, clarinete, saxophone and percussion.
In 1998 was created a group of popular and tradicional music where are played a lot of instruments like trikitixa, pandero, txirula, alboka, violín, flauta, acordeón, txalaparta, gaita, xirolarrua, etc, and what acts apart from dance group, in this way we could recover a facet what we had , in part, forgotten.
