What's the Stick Dance Coordinating Committee for Catalonia?

The First Catalan Stick Dance Meeting took place in Santa Maria d’Oló (Bages) in 1976. This initiative had a continuity and the same meeting took place every year in a different place, until 1985, when the different participating Stick Dance groups decided to found the Stick Dance Coordinating Committee for Catalonia (Coordinadora de Ball de Bastons de Catalunya) on the 29th of September, 1985. Its main objectives were (and are) coordinating, organizing and promoting cultural, popular and folk events. Generally, all these events are related to Stick Dance so as to promote the popular and the traditional Catalan culture.

Six Stick Dance groups took part in the First Catalan Stick Dance Meeting, in 1976. Nowadays the number of participating groups has increased up to 60. This figure shows an important increase in the Stick Dance activity and the Stick Dance Coordinating Committee is the body which coordinates the activity of all these Stick Dance groups. At the moment, there are 111 groups registered in the Stick Dance Coordinating Committee.
At the beginning, the Stick Dance Coordinating Committee's main objective was the organisation of the Stick Dance Meetings together with the corresponding Stick Dance group. With the passage of time, besides the organisation of the meetings, this body has reached new commitments and has offered services to all Stick Dance groups.