Reading this PDF on my laptop screen in a Brooklyn coffee shop, I felt a strange distance.
Let the Azken Dantza have one last physical turn. pdf azken dantza new yorken
It was a ghost. A ghost of the Basque diaspora in New York. Reading this PDF on my laptop screen in
I walked down to the 14th Street subway station. I watched the digital arrival boards count down: Train arriving in 1 min. A ghost of the Basque diaspora in New York
Joseba is probably in his sixties now. The gymnasium is gone. The Basque Center is a memory.
Oraintsu arte (See you later), New York. Have you found traces of old world dances in new world cities? Share your digital ghosts in the comments below.
The document was meant to be printed. It was meant to be held by trembling hands. One note in the margin, scanned in grainy 150 DPI, reads: "For Joseba, who left for Boise tomorrow. Zorionak."