Dusseldorf, Edwin Perez Uberhuaga (AL) .- The Dance "The Toba" in the Bolivian Chaco echoed in the streets of Dusseldorf, Germany, during the famous Carnival held on February 15 and was watched by millions of people.
For the fourteenth consecutive year, the Bolivian Federation of Europe (Fobe) and the Association of Friends of Bolivia represented the only foreign country invited to the second largest German carnival. Our skin was the only bronze amid parades of German blond.
While the Bolivian flag, the flag Andean wiphala or images of the Carnival of Oruro were present, the group of a hundred dancers consisted of Bolivians, Peruvians, Ecuadorians, Colombians, Uruguayans, Brazilians, Germans and other nationalities. They belong to cultural groups who came from Halle (Belgium), Cologne, Frankfurt, Essen and other cities.
one morning with heavy snow then improved, not subtracted brightness breaks the Toba and his songs ecological and "Do not say you've forgotten the land of your birth, you say you come back come back as the river returns to the track ', that during the course was accompanied by the greeting of German dance and jump around in time to the infectious beat. Julian Arias
leaders and Tommy Pozo said that the success of this activity is the result of an outreach effort of the Andean culture and to raise awareness of the values \u200b\u200bof Bolivia, as a factor of multiculturalism.
FAITH AND TRADITIONS
Can you imagine a church full of Germans, where a group of Bolivian singing and praying in the Aymara language, showing their faith and culture?. That happened on 14 February during the Mass in honor of the Virgin of the Tunnel, the patron saint of the Carnival of Oruro, in the Church St. Maria Königin, Krahnenburgstr.3 street. Bolivian-German
Children dressed in costumes, vanguardizaron income of Bolivians and Latinos with candles in hand, while the Bolivian priest Salvador Terrazas, who performs his pastoral work in Germany, led a group Jilata guitar, singing "They come with joy Lord, who walk through life, spreading your peace and love." There
Aymara religious chants and finally a Bolivian improvised a song dedicated to the Virgin and Bolivia saying "If away from you I find myself again I do not let me die without seeing you again. "
After the moving ceremony, there was a dress rehearsal at school, dinner in the parish hall and carnival Jilata enlivened by the group. At the end everyone went to rest in the field of sports hardwood floors in an evening tinged with snoring, crying baby and the song of those who did not want daylight.
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After everyone went to their hometowns, after serving one more year, the dream of the founders, Antonio Acebey, Julian Arias, Victor Hugo Vaca, Carlos Toro, Yvonne Tavera, Teresa Bruncken, Carlos Tommy Pozo Ugarte and
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CONQUEST OF GERMANY TO
The Association of Friends of Bolivia and Fobe, 14 years and participated in the carnival of Dusseldorf, in 2005 were invited to the reopening of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin before 80 thousand people where they danced tuffs and foremen.
also participated in the Hanover World Expo 2000 and at Christmas of 2009 together with the city of Dusseldorf and Jilata group organized a day dedicated to Bolivia.
These entities, integrated pro students, professionals and workers, has participated in almost all carnivals Europe: Manchester, London, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and are partners and co founder of the Carnival of Cultures in Berlin in 1990.
U. Edwin Perez is director of the magazine here in Spain-US LATINOS. Edwinperezuber@yahoo.es
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