BLUME Festival - that includes also the "IGF 50+

"IGF 50+ - Behind this abbreviation hides the" International Gymnastics Festival 50⁺ ", not only permanent best part of the BLUME Festival for many years, but the Spanish organizers are also among the pioneers of these special offers for active seniors in their prime, also called as "Golden Ager" in 2005, at the 45^thBLUME Festival, the initiative was launched on the initiative of former chairpersons for elder Gymnastics (German Gymnastics Federation DTB), Bärbel Schoettler, the "1. GOLDEN AGE FESTIVAL ", which was well received by the European Gymnastics Union (UEG) so much that three years later it took over this idea and since then has been a biennial event, which in no way deters the Spanish inventors in particular from annual sporting events to continue to nurture senior offers, that are still very popular in a variety of this year's workshops too ...

Traude Kell

The IGF successor at the BLUMEFestival, Traude Kell from Germany, explains the further development of this special event offer for sport-interested seniors:
"When the UEG took over 'it''s Golden Age Festival from the Spaniards in 2008, of course, it was a tribute to the initiators of the 48^th Blume Festival.
Thereafter, every two years in changing countries, in Portimao (POR), Montecatini (ITA), Toulouse (FRA) and Portorosz (SLO).
In 2018, the VI. Golden Age Festival of the UEG in Pesaro, Italy, very close to Reggione, place also of the EGF Festvals del Sole.
Like the BLUME version, the focus is on the workshops, but it also includes demonstrations, galas and excursions into the surrounding area."
As far as Traude Kell, who is responsible for the organization and content of the 2017 workshops in Gran Cabaria this week:

Variety and Originality

Take any object of everyday life be it plastic bottles or carpet tiles or fly swatters or a simple chair. Every year, the German instructor Christiane Kleinke introduces something new!
Last year, there were simply tights, and this year she inspired their workshop participants with the sporty use of chairs ...:

Angela Orozco-Dittrich in full action!

"Latina Vital" ... that means really vital!!

Unmistakable are the popular courses of the German fitness coach with Latin American roots, Angela Orozco-Dittrich; What she used to teach th las years in her "Zumba classes" today is called "Latina Vital" and is so sweaty and conducive to conditioning that you make it out of your workshop hours, but come out even happier and happier, with certainty, in fact just done something "vital".
The fact that Angela is not only able to lead her group to its performance limit with her enchanting charm, without feeling that directly, is what makes her professional. Her motto "LIFE IS MOTION" is therefore to be taken literally!

"Vital": Visible dynamics and joy in the Orozco group!

Also a flamenco course is in the current BLUME workshop offer. The mix Angela Orozco-Dittrich with the Spanish flamenco teacher "Swany" (in the foreground) make an irresistible mix of power and aesthetics! Ravishing, the two!

Richard Wiese (64), who has been leading secondary school students from the Bavarian Weissenhorn to the BLUME Festival 15 times since 1993, whose rock'n roll screenings have always been enthusiastically received here, also understands the over 60 years cadets in the workshop rememberring of their own individual Rock'n Roll days!

After over half a century of BLUME festival tradition, a lot has happened on Gran Canaria:
The "Sport for All", the popular sport for all age groups, has long since become the focus of even the Canarian society. This is also proven by the enormous increase in the number of participants of the locals, but also the special appreciation from abroad: For example, the city of Lucia de Tirajana has been awarded the European City of Sports 2018 by the Association of European Cities (ACES).

This is what the course participants point out in the photo with their poster and that they are planning to meet again at the 58th BLUME GRAN CANARIA Festival 2018.