Transcriber: Vanessa Montes Reviewer: Lisa Rodriguez
Kaixo, hello everyone.
We are the Oinkari Basque Dancers,
and we're going to kick off this little break with Agurra,
and this is a dance of greeting.
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As you heard, we started in 1960,
after a local group of Basque Americans went to the Basque country
and learned traditional Basque dance.
When they came back to teach what they knew,
they didn't have exactly the right numbers,
so they had to kind of adapt and create different variations
of those traditional Basque dances.
So the next two dances we'll be performing for you today,
the first one is Oinkari Jota and Porrusalda and it is a social dance,
that you see all over Europe,
not just in the Basque country,
but it is unique to our group.
The next one will be Arku Dantza,
which is a hoop dance that we also took the traditional dance of
and made it our own little variation,
so I hope you enjoy it.
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(Applause) (Cheers)
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Eskerrik Asko, thank you everyone and enjoy your TED talks.
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