Workshops - the special "BLUME Academie of Gymnastics"

Lectures Angelika Dietrich-Orozco in action!

Particularly appreciated by the participants in the prime of life are always the hands-on offers for active holidays.
Therefore the BLUME Festival Gran Canaria offers attractive workshops each year with interesting and varied events, partly also unusual offers. This content is conveyed by experienced lecturers and professional teachers from different sources, also from changing countries. This year there were a total of 16 teachers from Denmark, Colombia, Sweden, Germany and Spain. In their home countries they mostly are working full-time in various industries or lead professional movement studios, for example, the native Colombian Angela Dietrich-Orozco (photo, left), living now in Germany. At the end of their BLUME campaign this year, they have traditionally come together in a sociable and funny round ...:

Social final round of the 16 BLUME lecturers from 5 countries under the direction of Traude KERR (GER; in the picture on the right side )

♦ A fencing professor as a lecturer on the Atlantic beach

Otherwise, Prof. Claus GROSSER teaches actors or drama students, but was a trained gymnast by heart, studied at the German College of Physical Culture and Sport (DHfK) in Leipzig and graduated as a sports scientist. After completing his studies, he began teaching at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig. He taught drama students acrobatics, movement and stage fencing. As a consultant for movement issues and as a fencing choreographer he is a popular man at the theater. In his many years of experience in theater practice, he worked on about 150 productions and choreographed mainly in the theater fencing and fighting scenes, but also for the ballet, the opera and musical. In the summer of this year he was found in front of this historical backdrop in preparation for a film project:

The fencing master Prof. Claus GROßER (in the white shirt)
in front of his elves in a film shoot against a historical backdrop
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In the Academy of Fencing Art in Germany, he was amongst other things responsible for the training in stage fencing and fencing master since 2009. On the other hand, he taught at the Film University in Potsdam, at various private schools (Berlin and Delitzsch) and led courses in the German fencing Federation.
... and now here as a lecturer at the BLUME Festival, he inspired his workshop participants in the course "Juggling with several balls" and was astonished how many participants followed him in the morning on the beach of Playa del Ingles for morning exercises ...:

Claus GROSSER (left outside) as an animator for beach gymnastics in front of the festival hotel "Beverly Park" in Playa del Ingles.
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♦ Laura from Andalusia enthused with her flamenco lessons

The flamenco specialist Laura CLAROS also conveyed the highest level of competence with her Andalusian temperament. Where and when does one have the opportunity to be guided by such 'authorized movement pedagogues as an enthusiastic recreational sportsman, who also likes to be confronted with new movement experiences ...?!
At home in everyday life you have to opt for time-consuming and costly courses - this unique BLUME festival offers attractive opportunities that are often used by the participants.

Zumba lecturer Angela Dietrich-Orozco (left) and instructor Laura CLAROS (ESP, 2nd from left) at the flamenco workshop
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♦ Boule begeistert nicht nur Franzosen

Pétanque, sagt man dazu auch, und das ist ein dem Boule-Spiel zugeordneter Präzisionssport.
Dabei versuchen zwei Mannschaften, eine bestimmte Anzahl von Kugeln so nahe wie möglich an eine vorher ausgeworfene Zielkugel zu werfen. Seit einigen Jahren wird das auch von den BLUME-Teilnehmer sehr gern angenommen, zumal der Strand in Playa del Ingles vom Festival-Hotel "Beverly Park" weniger als 100 m entfernt ist.
Bestwerte bei viel Spaß und Gaudi erzielten in diesem Jahr Rita MUND aus Celle und Dieter SCHÄDLER aus Bassum (beide aus Deutschland; Foto, rechts oben >).

♦ Not all workshop variants have been presented so long, such as chair gymnastics, the Zumba course, gymnastics with everyday objects, yoga and much more - all sweaty and adapted by the experienced editors to the age structure and movement experience of the students and participants!
If you do not believe it, then plan on planning your active holiday together with the BLUME Festival Family!
Most come back every year!

And last but not least:
... for the first time this year there was also a Spanish language course ...:

... which was headed by Anja MIESNER (- in the photo right, outside)
- for a decade already as a staff of the OC BLUME - with their profound knowledge of the language and in an inimitable and impressive way, conveyed that you can get along well with everyday language on the holiday island.
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♦♦ This was B L U M E FESTIVAL - the 2019 Workshops
- and this professional editorial team had a lot of fun and again many grateful students ...: