European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                World Folk dance festival members of the swedish dance group appeared in 19thcentury the Manx Folk dance society from the Isle of Man performed at Anglo Saxon night at the Lowen Brauneller in Story and photos by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau from Scandinavia to from India to the world danced in Munich last week As More than 100 groups from 38 countries gathered for the world Folk dance the massive six Day which began and ended in the olympic called for an exhausting schedule that had the troupes giving As Many As three performances a but it would have been difficult to find a single dancer who want excited about being a we did a lot of and five hours of sleep a night was the but this is the first time Many of us have been overseas and its been just said Marian Hackney of the Clogg from Hackney said the group does american Folk dancing with a Texas their specially is a foot fast paced dance that never failed to Rouse the audience wherever they clogging originally came out of the appalachian mountains and sort of got transplanted to said the groups Marvin the group regularly does shows All Over Texas and has performed at such events As the 1982 worlds fair in Ive loved the whole before we came Over i was kind of worried about what the food would be but everything been were but we want to see and do As much As we Hackney adding that the group had a on week sightseeing trip through Austria and Switzerland planned following the one of the Fellows has already taken about 30 Rolls of film since weve been for Many of the taking part in the festival was a Way to keep tradition alive and share that tradition with others from around the said Rhonda of the first australian dance Fol group from the Only Active Folk dance group in that sometimes people say that Australia As a country is Only 200 years so we cant have much of a Folk dance she but what you do today is tomorrows and if we wait another 200 years before we Start to preserve these till be too late  be and at least one participant Felt a More personal involvement with the Doris who has a Folk dance group in her native originally came alone As a Spectator but was invited to she but she had to overcome some forbidding obstacles to have the Opportunity to dance last a few years ago i had she i had six operations within the Span of a year and was Given two years to live at the i was paralysed in one Arm and but Chisholm beat the undergoing a Long and difficult now i think of my dancing As a Way for me to give a Little something Back to the Folk dance festival originated with Guenther owner of a travel Agency in Munich and a member of the International society of the friends of based in England and represented in 40 Roleff saw a i similar festival in Boston a few years ago and wanted to develop one for Southern the festivals organizers faced huge logistical problems in getting so Many groups in the right places at the right and much of the trouble stemmed from the ambitious during the Day a Folk dance Competition was held in the  in the group Musica y from eventually won the first prize of the norwegian group Norske Fol Muset took the second prize of and a group from placed winning a prize of performances were scheduled in the evenings at the Loewe Braeu Keller and the Deutscher theater and during the Day at various places around the at one such performance at the Only two of the five groups expected showed one festival staffer said the bus Drivers of the other who we rent familiar with had probably gotten lost in the downtown in addition to All the groups were ferried to 14 other Southern bavarian towns for performances during the Robert one of the events said the festival staff of 10 people worked 16 to 20 hours a Day to make the event run one group said they were coming with 100 Kuster then they called and said they were coming with then they two Days before the they called and said they were coming with 50 it was just but none of it detracted from the pageantry of the which culminated sunday evening in an outdoor extravaganza at the olympic All the groups gathered for a dazzling display of and proving that dance is a truly worldwide we did More for International relations this past week than the United nations could have done in a said one the next festival is planned for after which it will become an annual several locations Are being considered for including Brazil Singapore and the festival will return to Munich every four the pint australian dance Fol group from Page 14 the stars and stripes portuguese Livramento dancers entertain a crowd at the August the Clogg hoppers from Houston were favourites with Munich the stars and stripes Page 15