The folclore dance group Selva and S. Cristina
Now there have already gone by twenty years since Bruno Riffesser together
with the association for culture and traditions of Wolkenstein has took
the initiative to found a folk-dance group. This institution was intended
to give the local youth the opportunity to revive this old tradition.
On 29th October 1983 29 young persons met for the first rehearsal in a
small but comfortable meeting place in the congress centre of Wolkenstein.
At that time two dancing teachers taught the folk-dance group: namely
Roland Seppi from Leifers and Peter Windegger from the folk-dance group
Neugries.
On 29th May 1984 the dancers had the opportunity to make their first appearance
in front of an audience and to demonstrate their skills.
One year after the foundation of the folk-dance group there was decided
to elect a committee. In which, for ten years, Bruno Riffesser functioned
as the representative. When he decided to resign, Peter Lardschneider
followed in his footsteps.
At the same time also Helmuth Malfertheiner began with his activity as
the leader of the dance group.
Because many members had already retired for professional or private reasons,
the folk-dance group gave up its activity after twenty years of its existence.
After the general assembly to disband the association, a small group of
people decided do build up the folk-dance group anew. As we can see today,
they succeeded after many attempts.
At the beginning of December 2002 the new statute, which says that the
association is officiallly named folk-dance group of Wolkenstein and St.
Christina, was formulated.
During the general assembly of 10th January 2003 it was decided to elect
a new committee which is composed of the following members: Andres Delago
functions as the representative, Barbara Senoner is the treasurer, secretaries
are David Senoner and Nancy Kaslatter; also in the committee are Andreas
Comploy, Helga Sinn and Peter Lardschneider as the leader of the dance
group. During this evening there were also present: Bruno Senoner, the
mayor of St. Christina, David Lardschneider, the official responsible
for cultural matters of Wolkenstein and the founder of the folk-dance
group Bruno Riffesser.
This year the folk-dance group had to deal with a lot of financial problems
because of the necessary purchasing of the new costumes.
The main aims of the folk-dance group are to keep up the tradition and
the culture of Val Gardena and to motivate the folk dance.
The folk-dance group Wolkenstein and St. Christina is going to carry on
improving
celebrations in our country and hopes furthermore for a good
collaboration and
support on the part of the population.
The committee is composed of the following members:
- Martin Zingerle as the representative and dance instructor
- Stefanie Runggaldier as the treasurer
- Alexia Demez as secretary
- Anna Demez is responsible for garbs
- Comploi Luca as responsible for things
- Diego Colleselli
- Luca Runggaldier
- Mussner Marion
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