SOKA, a closer look at Basque dance in Biarritz

SOKA, the itinerant exhibition produced by the Basque Cultural Institute in partnership with the Diputación de Gipuzkoa and Donostia-Saint Sébastien 2016 Foundation, aspires to make Basque Dance better known to a broader public.

It is a multimedia exhibition covering 150m², displayed in four languages (Basque, French, Spanish and English), with over 400 illustrations (iconographic collections, excerpts from interviews, sound clips, archived images, etc.), and videos discussing the aesthetic and social aspects of Basque Dance. Recollections of people involved in Basque Dance, gathered by the ICB as part of the “Eleketa” programme collecting the intangible cultural heritage of the Basque Country, can also be consulted.

There are some exceptional archives featured in the exhibition not only from the Euskadi Film Library, for example, but also the film made in 1927 by Czech ethnologist František Pospíšil in Bayonne, Lekaroz and Donostia. There are also five previously unseen photographs taken in August 1951 in Sare by the great Hungarian photographer and one of the founding fathers of photojournalism, Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann, 1913-1954), reproduced thanks to a partnership with the International Center of Photography (IPC) in New-York.

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Information

• Basque Cultural Institute – +33 (0) 559 932 525
• Opening days and hours
• Brochure on events organised around the exhibition (PDF)