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June 27-July 1; July 4-8, 2018
Log Sheet #6
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Audio/Video Log Sheet
Logger Name: Alison Karfeld
Recorder 1 Name: Dance Workshop 1
File Name: 0163.wav
Recorder 2 Name: Dance Workshop 2
File Name: 0365.wav
Presenter: Ricard Viñas de Puig
Date/Time: 7/7/18
Program: Catalonia
Stage: Dance Workshop
Group Name: Improvisatory Music + Dance from the Ebro River Delta with Rongalla dels Ports
Session Title: Espai de So

[[2 columned table]]
| PARTICIPANTS | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| Llois-Xavier Flores Abat | Catalar + Valercia|
| Miquel Angel Flores Abat | professors, musicians, and researchers who specialize in traditional music and dance |
| Sergi Masip | musician + instrument maker |

[[left margin]] musicians [[/left margin]]

Ebro Delta Southern Catalonia, Convergence of Catalonia, Valencia, Aragon to west The area is somewhat isolated from rest of Catalonia, but they are ethnographers who have restored the old traditions.

1st song w/ castanets? No dance

2nd = audience participation / dance - 2 rows - women in one. men in the other facing each other
Dance consists of 2 parts = 1st only w/ instruments, 2nd w/ instruments and voice; dance is a waltz, somewhat improvised.
3rd = Jota dance + Seguillida Sevittana dance has its origin in the Seguidilla, a much older dance.
combination
Beginning part w/ seguillida,
2nd half = jota
-women stay put, men rotate through larger circle, call in couples.  - accompanied by castenets.
4th = granadina = woman from granada
dance = Fandango from Southern Catalonia (similar to Andalucian) but they have their own in Catadonia into the pyrenees; more unknown but part of heritage as well
-accompanied by Castenets. Miguel + Lluis demonstrate dance.