I have cut and pasted the paragraph below from this website:
www.cd.sc.ehu.es/DOCS/book.SS-G/v2/Festivities.html - 20k
Hope it is of some help (I found it by putting Boetibar and dance as keywords in google.co.uk search engine)
In TOLOSA, on Midsummer Day, we find another type: the "Bordon-Dantza". According to the legend, its origin goes back
to the border fights in the Middle Ages, when the troops from Gipuzkoa had an important victory over the troops from Navarre
at the Battle of Beotibar. Sticks and halberds give the dance even more pomp and dignity. There are about twenty four
dancers, and the dance is part of a merry, noisy and colourful atmosphere: dances, a military parade, musicians, processions,
bullfights, etc...
Once the mass is over, different groups join in the procession, which goes along decorated streets, where dancers stop at
different spots to perform the dance with sticks. At the same time, companies of soldiers walk around the streets to the sound
of fifes and drums. Late in the afternoon, the councillors and the dancers get together to go to church; later on, they will go to
the bullfight. To round off the day, the dancers will, of course, perform another dance, that is the "Aurresku" (the social dance
of the folklore of Gipuzkoa) in Igarondo field.
Pat Stearman wrote:
> I have a query from a reader who originally asked for a book - by Donstia
> Alardeak called Disputacion fosal de Guipuzcao, apparently published in
> 1995 and available in English text. If anyone owns up to a copy, he'd
> like a photocopy of pages 38-57, but I can't trace one anywhere. However,
> further interogation reveals he's looking for information on the origins
> and in particular the naming of a dance created(?) to celebrate the Battle
> of Beotibar in the Basque region of Spain. (no date, my mind went
> immediately to the Peninsular War, but that could be just too much Sharpe!)
> The dance is called Pordon Dantze - his name is Pordon so he's intrigued!
> If anyone has any ideas or knows of any specialist library that could help,
> thanks!
>
> Pat Stearman
> Accessions/Requests Officer
> Hartlepool Borough Libraries
>
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