The festival of traditional dances.

The festival will take place from August 19 to 25 in Les Preses and the training part from Monday to Friday.

The training part will offer its three usual formats: Petit Ésdansa'T, for children from 3 to 11 years old, Ésdansa'T young with young people from 12 to 16 years old and Ésdansa'T, from 16 years old and a new proposal, Guaret.

Ésdansa, the dean festival of traditional roots dance, which reaches its 42nd edition in Les Preses (La Garrotxa), continues to bet on creation, participation, internationalization and training. And in this edition it will be possible to see in a clearer way because from the management it is firmly committed to this direction, creating a new training offer, Guaret.

Ésdansa's training line, which was born under the slogan "Dance and make dance", includes the Petit Ésdansa'T, for children aged 3 to 11, the young Ésdansa'T with young people aged 12 to 16, the 'Ésdansa'T, from the age of 16 and as we have already progressed, the Guaret.

This 2024 training sessions will be held from Monday 19 to Friday 23 August and, following the trend of recent years, will offer a wide range of workshops from learning purely traditional dance choreographies, both from Catalonia and elsewhere international territories, up to workshops focused on creation and offering tools to dance and teach dancing.


PETIT ÉSDANSA’T, workshops for children aged 3 to 11

Schedule: Mornings and afternoons

Place: Traditional dance space

El Petit Ésdansa'T accompanies children to discover the music and dance that they will be able to experience throughout the Festival. A mixture of colors, cultures, languages ​​and diversity that enriches young and old. In addition, with the Esbart Sicoris de Lleida they will be able to make a work based on play, experimentation, the discovery of gesture to transmit tradition through dance and movement.


ÉSDANSA’T JOVE, workshops for young people aged 12 to 16

Schedule: Mornings

Place: Traditional dance space

Ésdansa'T Jove is the natural continuation of Petit Ésdansa'T which was born in 2017 to offer training workshops in traditional root dance for young people. It seeks to bring young people closer to creation and the creative tools of root dance with various trainers and deepen their knowledge of each culture and dance of the countries visiting Ésdansa 2024.


ÉSDANSA’T ADULT, workshops for over 16s

Schedule: Mornings and afternoons

Place: Social premises of Boscdetosca and Recinte Ésdansa

A space to learn traditional dances from here and everywhere and experiment with different tools and techniques for dancing. This year the workshops will have trainers with Juan Carlos Lérida, Pere Seda, Pilar Capdevila and Sandra Tutó, the Ballet Folklórico "Manuel Acosta from Bolivia", Everest Nepal Cultural Group from Nepal, Kolovit from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rising Choreos from Malawi, among others others


GUARET – Space for training and research in traditional dance

Schedule: Mornings

Place: Traditional dance space


According to the dictionary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, fallow is a state of rest in which arable land remains unsown for one or more years.

Therefore, the formative commitment of the 2024 edition of the Ésdansa festival seeks a quiet work space, dialogue and rest for creative ideas. A training and research line has been created aimed at people with some experience in dance who want to deepen their knowledge in this area.

This first edition of Guaret will have the trainers Juan Carlos Lérida, Jon Maya, Julen Achiary, Andrés Marín and Magí Serra and with the accompaniment and supervision of Marina Escoda.

Registrations for the training part are now open. You will find more information on the website: www.esdansa.cat