The group in Rodgau-Jügesheim was my first group. They were part of the Catholic Youth Group. We did lots of demonstrations and organised parties/seminars. This is a picture of that group…we had just done a demonatration. The guys colorful „Russian“ costumes I sewed myself.
Often the group „Sousta“ joined us. The teacher, Conny Kissel, I knew from the Frankfurter group I onced danced with, „Slawia“. She later set up her group in Groß-Umstadt where she taught at the school my kids attended. She also organized partes at a place there called „Gruber Hof“, a former farm house which also had an interesting museum.
I also with this group learned about the German „Fasching“/carnival in 1982. while with the Rodgau group. Little did I know that I would become very involved with Fasching later, in 1978.
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| We even tried to perform a can-can, again with costumes I made. |  |
Sometimes we had „original“ costumes, some which I managed to buy and we were often in the press. As you can see in the following press-picture I used longplay records…we didn’t have cassets yet. That meant dragging my records plus the record player every time!!
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And we marched in local parades. The following are from one of those parades.
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I tried to get some original costumes, whenever possible. Otherwise I tried to sew some using original pictures or plans.
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And the following pictures of one of our many workshops/parties. We had dancers attending from all over Germany. Sometimes at the workshops we had real guest instructors from various countries. At the evening party dances were danced „on request“ or a guest group, like the group „Sousta“ did a performance as mentioned above.
A square dance group from Wiesbaden and one from Hanau, the „Hanau Hayseeds“ also visited us and performed some square dancing. I was able to dance along in a dress I had made myself. My partner was from the Hanau group and he sold me a „professional“ record player, complete with speakers and microphone. In one of my many moves
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My husband also atteneded with out two kids.
Once a year we arranged a party at the local barbeque place. It involed a lot of organizing but was always fun.
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Here I’m dancing a Ukrainian dance at an exhibition with Klaus Wand, who I also knew from the group „Slawia“. I had also made my costume myself as well as his.