Basque Dance - Early Observations

Early Observations

Voltaire noted in his observations

"The basque, this people who sings and dances on his mountains"

Strabo's observation in the first century B.C.

"(Basques) danced after drinking, alone or in groups, competing...as to who should leap the highest and fall on his knees with the most grace"

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