Sardane
The sardane is a traditional Danse Catalan where the dancers rings some are held by the hand, accompanied by the music of an instrumental unit called Cobla.
The Greek geographer Strabon (1st century) quotes a dance in round as a dance of offering to the the Moon, practiced by the Ibères which occupied the Western part of the littoral Roussillon are born.
As of the 16th century, the Catalans danced the “Contrapas”, with much of analogy with the short steps and the long steps of current the sardane.
The current sardane goes down from the short sardane of which it is different only by the increase from the number of measurements and the presence of a greater number of instruments in the cobla. This sardane modern would be a fusion successful between contrapas long and sardane short. It was born, in the middle of the 19th century, under the impulse of a musician of Figueres named Pep Ventura.
The sardane is danced in closed circle, alternating a man and a woman, the woman on the right of her partner.
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