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    To help educate members about German Folkdances, AFGFDG holds frequent workshops. Usually the workshops are held annually during the spring or summer. Below is a list of the Annual Workshops, and Dance Festivals in Germany run by affiliated groups.

 

    If you know of other opportunities for participatory folk dance, please help add to that schedule.

 

Past Annual Workshops

 

 

DATE

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

2011

Heim der Donauschwaben

 17th Annual Workshop

Dances of Austria and Sword Dance

Drs Carol and Herbert Traxler

Des Plaines, Illinois

2009

 

New Community Dances

and

Dances of the Early Youth Movement

Volkhard Jähnert
Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

2007

Heim der Donauschwaben

 

14th Annual Workshop

Jugend und Gemeinschaftstänze

Helga and Wolfgang Preuß, Tanzkreiß Buchholz/Nordheide

Des Plaines, Illinois

 

2006

Dances of Switzerland

Johannes Schmid-Kunz
Folklore Village, Wisconsin

2005

Historic Dances

In and Around Munich

Ingeborg Heinrichsen
Folklore Village, Wisconsin

2004

 Dances of the Lüneburge Heide

Dr. Wolfgang Schlüter
Tulsa, Oklahoma

2003

 Folk Dances of the Schwarzwald

(Black Forest)

Klaus Fink
Walla Walla, Washington

2002

 Dance Techniques and Culture

of the Donauschwaben

(Danube Swabians)

Nora Jarchow-Dürrenfeld
Detroit Michigan.

2001

 Dances of the Wends and Sorbs

Germany's Slavic Minority

Sabine Sieg
Giddings Texas

2000

 

No workshop was held this year.

53 NAFGFDG members went to Braunschweig Germany for the15th Bundesvolkstanztreffen. 

31 spent a week with Eckart and Angret Redersborg 

who invited us to tour Mecklenburg after their visit to the US in 1999.

 

1999

Dances and Folklore of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Eckart and Angret Redersborg
Folklore Village, Dodgeville, WI

1998

Dances of the Rhineland-Palatinate

Jochen and Ursula Muller
Indianapolis, IN

1997

 

No formal workshop was held this year.

 A less formal workshop was held in Houston, TX.

Morry Gelman and Karin Gottier did the teaching.

This workshop focused on dances that would be danced

at the 1997 Bundesvolktanztreffen in Erfurt Germany

where the NAFGFDGs was represented as a group for the first time.

 

1996

Dances and Folklore of Thüringen

Frau Haide Kriwitzki of Erfurt, Germany
Denver, CO

1995

Folk Dances of Bavaria

Sigi Ramstötter from Teisendorf
Troy, NY

1994

Founding Workshop

Helga and Wolfgang Preuß, Tanzkreiß Buchholz/Nordheide

Anni Herrman, Märkische Volkstanzkreiß, Berlin

Hartford, CT

 

 

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