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Type: Public
Created: Mar 22, 2008
Members: 1
Views: 5539
Location: Westerlo , Belgium
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Traditional dancing and flagwaving
The gilde is from origin the protection of the castle. So we still have a group of archers that practice and does competition every week. Then we have our dance group, flag-wavers and professional musicians.
The dance Group brings traditional folkdances from Flanders (the north / Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). We have on our program the oldest traditional stick dance
’ The Trawantel’; a men dance original from our village.
We wear traditional clothes from the region and dance sometimes on wooden clogs. Our musicians are professionals and semi-professionals and they will surely bring everybody in the right ambiance with accordion, violins and maybe some songs.
The program will be a mixture from :
- original very old traditional dances
- new creations
- flag-waving
The group has been participating on different festivals all over the world. Most off them were Cioff-festivals. We have been in Syria, Austria, Portugal, Mexico, Rumania, Greece, Ireland, Ecuador, England, Turkey, Germany, Norwegian, Holland…...
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