Aire! Follows the creative process of a group of young people to jointly create a musical piece inspired by the figure of Maurizia Aldeiturriaga, an energetic woman who revolutionized the world of Basque popular music in the early twentieth century. Together they will immerse themselves in an emotional journey that will change the way they understand music forever.
Pilar Gutiérrez Zubiaurre (1960, Mexico) reads old letters in the Landabarrena house (Garai). Signed under the pseudonym Landabarrenako Damia, they are texts by her grandmother, Pilar Zubiaurre Agirrezabal (1884, Garai-1970, Mexico). The past and the present meet in the granddaughter's hands. Aware that interest in her grandmother has been activated, Pilar sets out on the path of recovering and transmitting her work.
At the San Miguel festivities of 2018, when a group of boys and girls performed together in the village square, they demonstrated that the tradition of dance was more alive than ever.
In fact, that group will be the protagonist of the following documentary: the eight boys and girls who are members of the dance group of Iurreta.Every five years, every local dance group meet at the so-called Urrixena festival that takes place in Iurreta, a village from Biscay (province of the Basque Country). The debutantes will participate in this festival for the first time along with dancers of other generations. The rehearsals, the preparations and the palpable emotion in the square will be the guiding thread of the documentary. Additionally, some testimonies of dancers, researchers andothers will be collected.