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45 years of Karlsfelder Jumpagnes: show dance in the living room

2021-01-27T19:07:48.909Z


45 years - not exactly the jubilee of all anniversaries, but a reason to celebrate. So the Jumpagnes were looking forward to 2020. The show dance group of TSV Eintracht Karlsfeld, which emerged from the jazz dance group, wanted to celebrate first carnival and then their 45th anniversary. The big carnival ball, which has been organized in-house since 2013, was still taking place, under the motto “Superhero meets comic star”, hundreds of people in great costumes romped about in the community center.


45 years - not exactly the jubilee of all anniversaries, but a reason to celebrate.

So the Jumpagnes were looking forward to 2020. The show dance group of TSV Eintracht Karlsfeld, which emerged from the jazz dance group, wanted to celebrate first carnival and then their 45th anniversary.

The big carnival ball, which has been organized in-house since 2013, was still taking place, under the motto “Superhero meets comic star”, hundreds of people in great costumes romped about in the community center.

Karlsfeld

- But then it was over - Corona.

No more indoor training, no more gigs.

The dancers had no choice but to transfer the training to the Internet and thus to the living room, so to speak.

When the first lockdown was over, trainer Ulrike Koske was able to get her squad back together.

After all, they wanted to prepare for the 2021 carnival season.

Then came lockdown number two.

The Jumpagnes returned to online training.

However, they were able to cancel the carnival and of course their own ball in the community center.

“It was already clear to us in August that it could be a tight spot,” reveals the trainer.

Nevertheless, they and the active ones remain firm: the online meeting takes place every Tuesday.

“Then we train for two hours,” reports Uli Koske.

However, she admits that it can be difficult to maintain motivation.

The group has only appeared under the name "Jumpagnes" since 2006.

However, the story goes back much further.

In 1975 the first jazz dance group was founded at TSV Eintracht, and men were also there.

Five years later, under the direction of Gisela Bartmann, the jazz dance division was founded, and the first public appearances were soon made.

And sometimes in front of a large audience.

In 1981 the Karlsfeld group performed in the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle.

In the years and decades that followed, the dance group showed itself more and more frequently, also performing abroad, in Spain, France, Belarus and even Israel and South Africa.

In 1987 there was a special trip: at the invitation of Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker, a group of five traveled to Bonn to attend the “Youth in Parliament” event.

Background: On the initiative of Gisela Bartmann, imprisoned girls from the Aichach correctional facility can train with the dance group.

This special kind of social commitment is rewarded.

In 1990 Ulrike Koske took over the training - and continues to lead it today.

The TSV dancers are always in great demand at Mardi Gras, but there are also performances on other occasions;

For example, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the state sports association on Munich's Marienplatz in 1997 and several times at the German Gymnastics Festival.

The Jumpagnes stood and stand for great dances in great costumes and great programs with titles such as "Anneliese in Voodoo Land", "Martians", "In the realm of the morning sun" and "Hell is going on in heaven".

In 2020 it was said, as I said, “superhero meets comic star”.

But after the compulsory break in 2021, they want to come back by 2022 at the latest, the TSV show dancers.

Ulrike Koske: “We are of good cheer!”

Tol / dn

Source: merkur

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