Pictures of Boimorto that we have put together thanks to the contributions of many friends.
O Refuxio
Photos from 27 April 2003.
Dances of Boimorto
The muiñeira and the xota of Boimorto, danced in the «Gente Joven» contest on TVE.
Muiñeira de Boimorto, by the Xacarandaina group from A Coruña. We were told that Xacarandaina won the contest with this performance. The group took part in the programme in 1981: it appears in that year's Christmas special, although with a different dance.
«Gente Joven» was a Spanish Television (TVE) contest (1975–1987) to showcase young artists in different fields, regional dances among them, voted on by a jury. In 1988 it continued as «Nueva Gente». The footage belongs to TVE; it was digitised and published in 2005 by Ángel Zamora on dancilla.com, a folk dance website.
Why it looks so bad: it is a 1980s television recording, transferred to computer at 320×240 pixels and heavily compressed (about 300 kbps) so it could be watched online in 2005. What is lost in compression cannot be recovered: we have removed some of the noise and blockiness and enlarged it, but that is as far as it goes.
Do you have a better copy? Some «Gente Joven» programmes can be watched on RTVE Play, but not this one. If you have a recording from the time, know which programme this performance was broadcast in, or can get it in better quality, write to us.
Xota de Boimorto, by the Saudade group. It may be the Saudade group of the Casa de Galicia in Barcelona (today the Agrupación Cultural Gallega Saudade), which competed in «Nueva Gente» in 1988 with other dances.
«Gente Joven» was a Spanish Television (TVE) contest (1975–1987) to showcase young artists in different fields, regional dances among them, voted on by a jury. In 1988 it continued as «Nueva Gente». The footage belongs to TVE; it was digitised and published in 2005 by Ángel Zamora on dancilla.com, a folk dance website.
Why it looks so bad: it is a 1980s television recording, transferred to computer at 320×240 pixels and heavily compressed (about 300 kbps) so it could be watched online in 2005. What is lost in compression cannot be recovered: we have removed some of the noise and blockiness and enlarged it, but that is as far as it goes.
Do you have a better copy? Some «Gente Joven» programmes can be watched on RTVE Play, but not this one. If you have a recording from the time, know which programme this performance was broadcast in, or can get it in better quality, write to us.