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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. 

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!!

And we marched in local parades. The following are from one of those parades.

I tried to get some original costumes, whenever possible. Otherwise I tried to sew some using original pictures or plans.

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 

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.

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.