Folk Dance Group Peda |
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Group Info
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Folk |
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Latvia |
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06.09.2011 |
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Young people from Aizkraukle came together for the first rehearsal 15th december 1988. Only two years later (summer 1990) they got rights to participate in Latvian song and dance Festival which is the most popular Latvian tradition where participate only the best dance groups from whole Latvia. From that time folk dance group "PEDA" ("the foot") takes part in all further Latvian song and dance festivals and also participates in all regional and international folk dance festivals in Latvia. Since the beginning in 1995 youth dance group "Peda" is one of the organizers of internetional folk dance festival ”Sudmalinas”.
First time group went on a tour august 1990 to Siberia. The group gave performances in the places where the deportated (in 1941, 1949) Latvians were settled on the banks of river the Yenisei, from Krasnoyarsk as far as the Arctic Ocean. The group also participated in several international festivals in Hungary, Lithuania, Israel, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland and Nepal.
Repertoire of the group includes Latvian original dances. Una Stakle is an art–adviser and choreograph of the group since fundation. Youth dance group participates in ethnographical programms, and also in modern dance performances in cooperation with other dance groups from Aizkraukle region.
All participants in dance group are in the age from 16 to 30 years and they bring together joy of dancing and love to latvian folk traditions.
Music for dance group will be provided by folk music group of Imants Baumanis. Musicians are playing violins, accordion, drum and Latvian folk music instrument – kokle.
International festivals where folk dance group "Peda" (Latvia) has participated
Festivals
Nepal
2006 March
3rd Folk Festival Nepal KATHMANDU
Hungary
2005 September
International Festival "Halasi Szüret" KISKUNHALAS
Poland
2005 July
International Festival Folkloru "Dni Kultury Kaszubskiej"
BRUSY, SOPOT
Portugal (Madeira)
2004 September
Semana Europea de Folclore. FUNCHAL
Portugal (Madeira)
2004 September
7th Festival Internacional de Folclore PONTA DO SOL
Lithuania
2004 June
Joniu – 2004 JONAVA
The Netherlands
2002 June
37. International Folk Festival OpRoakeldais. WARFFUM
Lithuania
2001 June
Joniu – 2001 JONAVA
Italy
2000 September
Winner ALBO d'ORO
3. International Festival. FIVIZZANO
Croatia
1998 October
Susred Naroda i Kultura. ZAGREB, DALMACIA
Hungary
1998 August
"Zemplen" International Folk Festival SATORALJAUJHELY
Slovakia
1997 March
Cathering of Peoples and Cultures RASLAVICE, BARDEJOV
Hungary
1997 September
International Festival "Halasi Szüret" KISKUNHALAS
Hungary
1996 August
27. International Festival. DEBRECEN
Hungary
1995 September
International Festival "Halasi Szüret" KISKUNHALAS
Israel
1994 June
International Cathering. ASCHRAT, KFARVRADIM
Hungary
1991 August
"Zemplen" International Folk Festival SATORALJAUJHELY
Russia
1990 August
Tour in Siberia. KRASNOJARSK, DIVNOGORSK, YENISEYSK, NORILSK, DIKSON
Vilis Stakle
Manager of Aizkraukle culture centre
Kalna street 20
Aizkraukle LV-5102
Latvia
Telephone: (+371) 5128204
Fax: (+371) 5128098
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