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Azkoitia, Gipuzkoa.  Haurren Eguna.

5/13/01 Younger members of Oņatz dance group, older members as supervisors, and musicians from Oņati parade through Azkoitia in the morning of Haurren Eguna, young dancers' day.
5/13/01 Young members of Oņatz dance Kaskarotz Dantza on one of their stops in the streets of Azkoitia.  Their male counterparts, instructors, supervisors, and locals look on.
5/13/01 At lunch the dancers are invited to eat with local families.  Instructors and chaperones all eat together at a gastronomical society.  This particular lunch was delicious and a lot of fun with singing, dancing and trikitixa.
5/13/01 Asier Alonso, dancing as captain (indicated by blue skirt) of the young Oņati dancers, gets some help from the current captain of the Korpus dancers, Mikel Irizar.
5/13/01 After parading and dancing through the streets the dancers make their way to the plaza.  Some dances are performed by all groups at once, but each group also has the opportunity to perform a special dance by itself.  Here the Oņatz group performs the Arku Dantza from the cycle of dances performed for Corpus Christi.  It is also known as the Triunfo de Cristo or Christ's Triumph

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