A colorful festival
Festival Op Roakeldais has been offering a stage to international dance groups since 1966 to showcase their culture through traditional dance and music. The young, energetic dancers share their passion for their own culture with the audience and the other dancers.
By teaching each other and the audience their dances and dancing together during the Dance Together, we celebrate a feastof fraternization. Through dance we come into contact with each other and get to know each other, so that boundaries disappear.
Our artists
The dancers and musicians will stay with host families in Warffum and the surrounding villages during the festival. For a week, the host families offer their international guests a ‘home far away from home’, entirely on a voluntary basis. The guests become part of the family. We get to know each other, each other’s customs and habits. This creates friendships for life.
Festival Op Roakeldais shows the colorful diversity of cultures in the world, but also that people are all equal despite this diversity. Dance with the World
Former artists
2022
Chile
Akahanga
Ecudor
Fundacion cultural Nukanchik
Kenya
African Tumbas
France
Ballet de Savoie
Hungary
Tiszavirág Folkdance Ensemble
Netherlands
Hai la Joc
Netherlands
Ralda
Romenia
Amsamblul Marginimea Sibiu
India
Surtaal Performing Arts
2019
Bolivia
Bafopaz
Bosnia and Herzegovina
ANIP Veselin Masleša”
Botswana
Kgabosereto traditional troupe
Brazil
Flor Ribeirinha
Kazakhstan
National Ensemble Saltanat
The Netherlands
Kansemble
The Netherlands
Paloina
New Zeeland
Nga Uri A Te Wai-o-Taiki Cultural Group
Puerto Rico
Guamanique
Romania
Ensemble Mugurelul
South Africa
Ama-Zebra Youth Organisation
2018
Colombia
Balcon de los Artistas
Ghana
Nkrabea Dance Ensemble
Malaysia
Hands Percussion
Mexico
Ballet Mexicanisimo
Moldavia
Ensemble Hora-Horita
The Netherlands
Hai La Joc
The Netherlands
Het Hoogeland
Russia
Vesennie Zory
Serbia
KUD Srem
Uruguay
Compañía de Arte – Sentido Sur
USA
Bailey Mountain Cloggers
2017
Brazil
Grupo de Danças Populares
Costa Rica
Compañia Folklorica Curubandá
Cameroon
Troupe Royale Amina Rasta
Kenya
Nairobi Dance Ensemble
Macedonia
Ensemble for folk dancing and songs “Skopje”
The Netherlands
De Grunneger Daansers
The Netherlands
Hai La Joc
Nepal
Everest Nepal cultural group
New zealand
Nga Uri a Te Wai-o-Taiki Cultural Group
Honoured Dance Ensemble of Ukraine “POLISYANKA”
Ukraine
Peru
Perú Multicolor Folklor & Fantasía
Poland
Folk Song and Dance Group Bychlewianka
Thailand
Prince College Cultural Group
2016
Chile
Ballet Folclorico Bafut University Tarapaca
Colombia
Ballet Tierra Colombiana
India
Rhytms International Folk Art Club
Indonesia
Bintang Nusantara
Kalmykia
Oiraty
The Netherlands
De Grunneger Daansers
The Netherlands
Het Hoogeland
Panama
Ballet folklòrico ‘Panamà Fantasia’
Russia
Razdolye
Serbia
Kud Srem
Slovakia
Folk Ensemble Dúbrava
Tahiti
Raiatea Nu
Zimbabwe
Simba Arts
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