Dancing

A friend sent a snippet from the local AAA magazine, which encouraged visitors to watch the traditional sardana dance outside the cathedral in Barcelona.  Yes, they have a lot of dancers there, but there are also a lot of tourists.  If that had been our only option I would have definitely gone, but lucky for us there was a performance at the cathedral just ten minutes from our place.

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The view of the dancers from the orchestra.

Many people complain that the dance is simple, repetitive, and boring.  The first two are definitely true, but I had no problem enjoying it for about an hour.  On the other hand once was enough.

Most people had regular flat shoes, but some people had shoes
with straw soles, some with ribbons that wrapped around one's ankle.

The traditional orchestra has eleven players and twelve instruments. One person plays a recorder-like instrument (flabiol) and drum (tambori), two play tibles (like an oboe), two play tenores (like bigger tibles), two trumpets, one trombone, two fiscorns (like flugelhorn), and a three-string double bass.

This video is ten years old, but it gives you a sense of the instruments and the dancing.