{"id":43926,"date":"2025-07-28T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/tradidancas-here-comes-the-festival-where-dance-protects-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:48:40","slug":"tradidancas-here-comes-the-festival-where-dance-protects-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/tradidancas-here-comes-the-festival-where-dance-protects-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradidan\u00e7as. Here comes the festival where dance protects the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From July 31st to August 4th there will be another edition of the Tradidan\u00e7as festival, the one that gets everyone of all ages dancing for four days. As well as dancing, there’s nature, good food and a constant concern to reduce the impact on the planet. <\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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If Filipa Pereira won \u20ac1 for every time she was asked, “But is Tradidan\u00e7as the old Andan\u00e7as?”, she’d be rich. However, it’s normal for confusion to occur, not only because dance is the common denominator between the two events, as is the location: S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul. <\/p>\n

So let’s hear it from those who know best.<\/p>\n

Filipa explains that Andan\u00e7as moved to another location and S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul lost the festival that had been bringing thousands of people to the region for years. “We were left with the desire to continue doing something,” explains the current producer and programmer, who began her career just like any other festival-goer. <\/p>\n

“I went to Andan\u00e7as in 2008 and I loved it. As soon as I left, I looked for places where I could learn to dance, because I realized that there really are a lot of people dancing the so-called traditional European music all over the country, even though it doesn’t get much exposure in the media,” she says. Along the way, she met her current husband, Paulo Pereira, one of the people responsible for the creation of Andan\u00e7as and, for many years, president of P\u00e9 de Xumbo, the Association for the Promotion of Music and Dance. <\/p>\n

She joined him in S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul, a town that for years was orphaned of a festival it loved so much.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the buzz started that a new festival was coming, the Tradidan\u00e7as, organized by the Tourist and Agricultural Association of Serra da Arada (ATASA), in partnership with the Municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Geting your hands dirty and your feet dancing<\/h3>\n

Filipa got involved with the organization from the very first year and is now the producer of an event that grows every year. Since 2022, she has also collaborated with NBI – Natural Business Intelligence, in programming and consultancy for natural area interventions, promoting best management practices. <\/p>\n

“Tradidan\u00e7as is now a festival of Traditions, Dance, Music and Nature,” she explains, and all these aspects are clearly visible in the programming and organization of the space.<\/p>\n

Dance and music are everywhere, of course, from concerts to dances, dance and musical instrument workshops and lots of music that is born spontaneously by those who feel it pulsating.<\/p>\n

As for nature, you only have to look around to realize that it is a constant presence. In recent years, values from the area’s natural landscape (known for its mountains, streams and natural pools) have been integrated, because it is believed that the festival should be associated with an effort to reduce its environmental impact on the community and a concern to spread environmental values. For this deeper connection, every morning there is a sensory or interpreted nature walk to get to know the local vegetation better, for example. <\/p>\n

All these details are already geared towards connecting visitors with nature and the surrounding area, showing that there are ways of living with less impact. But there’s more: <\/p>\n

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\nimplementaram um Saneamento Ecol\u00f3gico para tratar cerca de 75% dos res\u00edduos org\u00e2nicos produzidos durante o festival; <\/p>\n

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\nexistem dezenas de casas de banho e urin\u00f3is secos; <\/p>\n

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\nNa cantina h\u00e1 sempre op\u00e7\u00e3o vegetariana para todas as refei\u00e7\u00f5es; <\/p>\n

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\nrecolhem matos e ervas dos terrenos do festival para a constru\u00e7\u00e3o das casas de banho secas; <\/p>\n

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\nH\u00e1 recolha dos biorres\u00edduos, provenientes da cantina e dos
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\nExitem compostores dispon\u00edveis ao p\u00fablico. <\/p>\n

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\ntodos os dias existem oficinas sustent\u00e1veis onde se ensina, por exemplo, como produzir cosm\u00e9tica com base em azeite, ou cogumelos com base em borras de caf\u00e9; <\/p>\n

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\npromovem o uso de bicicleta para chegar ao evento, com um desconto no pre\u00e7o do bilhete; <\/p>\n

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\na \u00e1gua para os banhos \u00e9 aquecida com o calor do sol; <\/p>\n

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\nas \u00e1guas dos duches s\u00e3o depois usadas para os autoclismos; <\/p>\n

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. the space is prepared to welcome children, with workshops and activities for the youngest;<\/p>\n

. it is an inclusive festival, with activities for senior citizens and people with special needs. Examples include adapted dance workshops.<\/p>\n

The event takes place this year from July 31 to August 4 and tickets are on sale here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peggada will be there. Follow us on social media<\/a> to see all the sustainable details of this event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and a vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than sarrabulho. She has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post its, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You can read more texts from Marta here.<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t
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