03. December 2024  
Maspalomas, GC  
Workshops

The variety of BLUME workshops in the 2024 edition

<< After completing the course - satisfied participants of the ‘Flamenco’ workshop - the Spanish dance, which has rightly been part of the intangible world cultural heritage for over 100 years and which has demonstrably positive effects on mental and emotional health, as you can easily see from the faces of the workshop participants in the photo!
It is just one of the many workshops organised and supervised by Traude KELL (<< in the picture on the right in blue BLUME T-shirt).
Flamenco from first-hand Spanish experience (!) was taught by dancer Natalia Juez Monzòn, assisted by her daughter Sara Rosales (front, 1st row) ...

The district of San-Bartolome de-Tirajana and the municipality of Maspalomas have been making the attractive sports complex with its outdoor facilities and sports hall in the northern district of San Fernando available to BLUME festival participants for many years:
The best conditions for sport under palm trees. ‘Muchísimas gracias!’

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... ... made available and facilitated by the local administration and the Mrs. Mayor (3rd from left), following the decades-long tradition with the OK Blume Festival, whose members were invited to a reception again this year with OK boss Jesus Telo Rodriguez (front, centre):

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♦ Main criteria of the BLUME workshops:
    D I V E R S I T Y - joyful & age-appropriate - taught by experienced instructors and lecturers from different countries!

For over a decade, the highly emotional professional movement therapist Angela Dittrich-Orozco, for example, has been inspiring her versions of Latin dance.
You simply can't resist her infectious charm and rhythmic dynamism ...:

If you're not carried away by Angela's power (front, centre), you can't be saved!!!
* More from the native Colombian - who lives in Germany - about her LATINO-AEROBIC workshops you will find >> H E R E
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... and anyone who wanted to do something good for their work-ridden body or counteract the effects of daily comfort was encouraged to follow the suggestions of the German editor Hildegard BLUMENBERG...

... and lo and behold:
your recommendations for an ‘intensive workout’ were very popular!

Prof. Klaus Grosser (GER)

‘ Show me your feet ...?’
... or what ever you can do in everyday life to relieve your feet with a chair, because it doesn't always have to be a trip to the gym or an expensive home trainer.
The former fencing professor with a doctorate from Leipzig and graduate of the once famous German High School of Physical Culture" (DHfK) in Leipzig - which will once again host the next German Gymnastics and Sports Festival and also the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships at the end of May 2025 - has taught fencing to drama students for stage and film for decades of his professional career.

And the main principle is: Don't be afraid to join in!
Dancing is universal, regardless of the form, as long as you move rhythmically ...
* In square dancing, for example, four couples dance together.
At the beginning of each dance, they stand on the lines of an imaginary square and form the so-called square, which gives the sport its name: Square Dance.
Usually several of these squares dance at the same time, but independently of each other.

Under the guidance of the experienced German grammar school teacher Richard Wieser from Bavaria, who has been a regular guest at the Blume Festivals in recent years with his famous rock'n roll group, he now passes on his dance teaching experience in this form, but also in the version of Line Dance and of course in his old passion for Rock'n Roll!

Oh, by the way  ... and if you've noticed,
that it was mainly women who were in action at the workshops, you should have seen the BLUME matinée in the northern island region in Santa BRIGIDA: There, for example, one of the traditionally large delegations from Denmark took part with an exemplary and almost balanced proportion of active men!

* * The DANES were and are known as one of the most active European nations in terms of mass sports in Europe.
... oh, and there was actually much, much more to see and experience!
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At the end of the happy days big THANKS to all lecturers, teaching staff and lecturers
from all the HAPPY WORKSHOP PARICIPANTS 2024 ..:

►► C l i c k  f o r  B I G !!

* Please think about it:
How uneventful is a holiday without joyful sport ...?
→ B L U M E  FESTIVAL  is best booked for Y O U R next holiday!
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