The Wanderings festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with seven days of dance, music, sharing and celebration, starting this Monday, in Castelo de Vide in Portalegre district.
Sponsored by the Association for the Promotion of Music and Dance PédeXumbo, the Wanderings – International Festival of Folk Dances expects to receive about 40 thousand visitors until Sunday, a 28-hectare site, next to the dam of Póvoa
The Wanderings is a festival which is based on “four pillars”:. dance / music, volunteering, community and environment / sustainability
Counting, on the logistics, with about a thousand people, including a “large chunk” of volunteers, the festival challenges visitors to “abandon” the posture of spectators to be able to take an “active role” in the activities undertaken, Ana Martins note.
According to the organization This year will also be created a new space, inspired by the traditional venues for meeting and social interaction for the dance. “The Terreiro stage is new; it will take place presentations of musical projects more connected to rural life, the pure and simple tradition,” said Ana Martins
With about 500 artistic activities around the grounds, the Wanderings. will also feature this year for the first time, with a fair of traditional instruments, where builders of instruments will show and sell their work, sharing skills and expertise with festival-goers.
For the 11 spaces of scheduled festival will spend more than 50 groups and musical projects, totaling thousand artists, there is still room for holding dance workshops during the day and dancing at night.
“more than 130 dance workshops “will offer rhythms and choreography of the various continents, with dances as different as tarantellas of Italy, Balkan circles, mazurkas Poland, urban, Indian classical, african-Columbian, tap, forró, samba, bachata, swing, rock ‘n’ roll, Cape Verde, Angola, tribal African, Galician, Basque, and Mirandese Azores, among others.
According to Ana Martins, in the latest issue, the Andanças received “about three thousand children” and this year will rely on a “privileged” space for young and their families, and dance workshops were created in poultry sheds, Colombia, India, Mozambique, Portugal and urban areas, among others.
Second the Mayor of Castelo de Vide, Pita, the festival takes “great importance” in the region’s economy, especially in tourism and hotel sectors. “Right now is beginning to run out the answer to the high demand for overnight stay, not only in hotels but also in private homes, as there is a greater adherence of people who prefer to stay in homes,” added the mayor.
In addition to music and dance, the Andanças has yet to offer workshops visitors of art, cuisine and arts and crafts, as well as cinema sessions tales, naturalist workshops, circus and theater.
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