The folk 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:

• Andreas Comploi as the representative
• Andreas Delago is responsible for PR and vice-representative
• Matthias Weithaler as the dance instructor
• Martin Zingerle as the treasurer and dance vice-instructor
• Anna Demez is responsible for garbs
• Delazer Christine as secretary
• Andreas Insam is responsible for things and webmaster