Participants 2019

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Folk dance group "Janj" Strojice was founded in February 2015 in Strojice, Municipality of Šipovo, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Society has about 80 members deployed in two age groups.
 
Since its founding, the goal of the society is to preserve the rich tradition, culture and customs of the Janj region of Bosnia and Heryegovina where all the members of group live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYx_PRXFxRg

​COLOMBIA

Ballet Raices de Colombia

Founded in 2001, The Ballet Raices de Colombia (BRDC) is an artistic and cultural nonprofit organization working for the enhancement of multiculturalism in Canada through the Colombian folklore. Our media involve dance, music and all other artistic expression that guarantees a high quality show and an unforgettable experience. With a touch of classical and modern ballet, BRDC illustrates one of the richest folklores in the world thanks to the mixture of Pre-Columbian, Spanish and African cultures.

The founder and choreographer Carlos Reyes always had the objective of promoting the Colombian folklore not only among Colombians living in Canada, but also among all those who show interest in Colombian culture, music and dances. We have participated in internationally renowned events such as the International Performing Arts Festival, Worldfest 2016, in Mumbai, the Montreal Salsa Congress and the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015, thus actively contributing to the cultural dynamics of Montreal. Winner of the 2012 competition at the Longueil International Percussion Festival, the BRDC has been a part of various festivals programming since its inception. Festivals such as the Mondial des cultures in Drummondville, the Festival of Traditions du Monde in Sherbrooke and Just for Laughs are some festivals where the troupe has seduced the public thanks to its professionalism and staging. 

HUNGARY

Our village, Üllés, is situated in the South-Eastern part of Hungary, called the Great Plain.

This region is famous for its wine and pepper. Üllés has 3200 inhabitants.

The Folkdance Ensemble FONÓ Üllés was founded in 1977 by the local elementary school, the Déryné Cultural Center and the local ÁFÉSZ ( General Cooperative of Consumes and Sale ).

The members are students and young workers who undertake to keep the dance traditions and folkways of their homeland.
Our performance shows an authentic view of the dances of the Carpathian Basin and the hungarian folklore. We pay great attention to representing the original dances in original costumes, which were sewed by the dancers themselves. As a recognition of professional
work, the ensemble have won many prizes so far. ( “Eminent Ensemble”, the “Best Ensemble Award”, Csongrád County Creative Award, Prima award 2018). We are constant attenders of local and international festivals and have already visited almost every country in Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, England, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Poland).

The ensemble puts a lot of effort into the education of the next generations. At the art school the pupils get to know the different types of traditional children’s games, folk songs and the easier steps during their early schoolyears and become „native speakers” of hungarian folkdance. By this time we have 120 members in 4 different groups, based on age.

The ensemble has two orchestras a youth and an adult one. Performances are accompanied by them but they have their own programmes too.

Our programme:

• Dances from Dél-Alföld ( South-east part of Hungary. This is our region, our homeland)
• Dances from Szatmár ( North-east part of Hungary)
• Dances from Kiskunság (South-east part of Hungary)
• Dances from Désfalva ( Hungarian gipsy dances from Transylvania)
• Dances from Palatka and Feketelak (Hungarian dances from Transylvania)
• Dances from Kalotaszeg (Hungarian dances from Transylvania)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unZo04KL-Ds

NETHERLANDS

International dance group Hai la joc was founded in 1979 and is an enthusiastic group of people from Groningen, the Netherlands. In addition to Dutch folkloristic dances, our repertoire includes dances from all over the world; from Mexico to Romania and from South Africa to Poland. We train once a week, and, on average, we have one performance a month. During our rehearsals we do not only seek for improvement in our dance skills, but we also strive for a better presentation in general.

See for further information the website hailajoc.nl. Photos can be found on the website as well. We joined festivals in Poland (Nysa), England, Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany in the last ten years. We don’t do competitions. We perform Dutch dances during festivals, but when asked we also do dances from other countries like Mexico, Turkey etc.

Orchestra Ferdivedûnsje was founded over 25 years ago by four musicians in Frisia - nothern part in the Netherlands. These four musicians wanted to play folklore music. They played at many festivities in the Netherlands to accompany dancers. The group played with different musicians during the years, but the four founders stayed the same. Ferdivedûnsje was with Hai la joc in the festivals in Latvia, Czech Republic and Germany. For these occasions they studied the Dutch folklore music.

Festivals group have been on:

• 2011 - Nysa, Poland
• 2012 - Alnwick, England
• 2014 - Balvi, Latvia
• 2017 - Pisek, Czech Republic
• 2018 - Scheessel, Germany

SERBIA

History of dance group “Radost”- Joy, from Serbia - Belgrade.
Dance group “Joy” were founded 1958 ,as dance group of traditional Serbian dances .

Our dance group have 120 members divided into a four group : Group 1: kindergarten group (4-6 years), 2. Group: Children (7-9
years),3.group: (9-14 years old), and 4.group oldest group (16 -19 years).

In our dance program we perform choreography from all over Serbia, the dances are fast, dynamically, some of the choreography are humorous, and most of the choreography speaks about customs specific to Serbia and the entire Balkans.

• 2018 we were participants on festival in Istanbul – Turkey
• 2017 we were participants on festival in Macedonia
• 2016 we were participants on festival in Lugano - Switzerland
• 2015 we were participants in folklore festival in Rimini - Italy
• 2014 we were participants Folklore Festival in Budapest-Hungary
• 2013 we were participants in folklore festival in Primorsko-Bulgaria
• 2012 we were participants of the festival traditional dance in Caracal-Romania.

All information can be seen on the facebook page KUD Radost - on Serbian language, and in the letter we will send you the links where you can see the choreography performed by the our group.

SLOVAKIA

Folk ensemble Lelija was founded in 2007 in Trebišov. It´s a group of young people who are interested in folklore. Lelija present songs and dances from easter Slovakia, especially Zemplín and Šariš region.

Folk ensemble represents Slovak culture in Slovakia and abroad. Our group visited with several countries of Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Belgium and France.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnEYcXiVrs

ROMANIA

Childrens Folk Ensemble “Doruletul”Tulcea

Founded in 1990 by prof. Stefan Coman, master choreographer.
Ensemble "Doruletul" is made up of over 250 children aged 4 to 18 years.
Organize by age - members of the ensemble, these young artists with a desire to know the extent of age, detachment learn dance moves, secrets traditional game Dobrogea and not only thereby further Dobrogea and Romanian folklore treasure.
Over 50 games with games Dobrogea help of Wallachia, Moldova and Oltenia, the wealth of small repertoire artists. Over 1,000 children were members of the assembly over the 24 years of activity.

Ensemble "Doruletul" is the originator of the largest International Folklore Festival for children in Romania, "Golden Fish" which began in 1993 - a festival that gathers at the mouth of the Danube over 1000 children messengers of folklore in the country and abroad.
"Doruletul" participated in international festivals profile Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, France, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Netherlands, Moldova, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Cyprus, Turkey, Croatia etc.

Many of the dancers of the Ensemble "Delta Ballads" (90%) come from the ensemble of children "Doruletul". In his components the folk ensamble ,,Doruletul’’ has vocal singers .

Director: Stefan Coman
Choreographer and artistic coordination: Stefan Coman