Tine Rožanc Folkloric Dance Group
History
The folklore group was originally established as part of the Tine Rožanc Railway Cultural Association (1921), the history of which is linked to a 19th-century cultural initiative connected with the construction of the Southern Railway from Vienna to Ljubljana and Trieste. During the 1960s the group toured to Trieste, Gorizia, London, Dijon, Lienz and Meran, and won the first prize at a festival at Bellingham. In the 1970s it co-operated with a folkloric group from Haifa, Israel, and later toured to Finland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Egypt within the programming framework of the International Council for Organisations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Art (CIOFF), Slovenia, with which it closely cooperates also today.
Programme
The group presents Slovene folkloric heritage (customs, costumes, music, and dance) throughout Slovenia and abroad. Its repertory includes dances and songs from all Slovene regions, connecting them in longer dance sets that are characteristic for specific regions, with some of the elements appearing in variations in different regions. The group has appeared at international folklore festivals in Ukraine, Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, Monte Negro, etc., it regularly appears at the Folkart International Folklore Festival, Maribor, and annually organises a concert, usually held at Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre.
Tine Rožanc Group is a member of CIOFF.