Ladies and Lads of the Lake

[selenak]

This evening there was the "Seefest" (i.e. "lake festival") of Bad Wiessee, and there was some extremely pretty folklore dancing by children and teens in costume in front of the Alps and the lake in question, so I and my camera were there, and I had to share. Have one demonstration why ahead of the cut:





First of all, the location of our scene:




On to the dancers:
















Now for something slightly wilder:
























Have another look at the lake itself:





And this is yours truly, currently ten kilos lighter than I was this spring, waving goodnight:

Comments

[surexit]

Preeeetty.

[selenak]

*beams*

[watervole]

That looks like fun. I wonder what the music is like?

What are those things they have in their hats?

[selenak]

Here's a YouTube vid where they dance to similar music:

ETA: forgot that you can't post YouTube vids in Dreamwidth comments, for some reason. Have a link to the vid instead, here.

(I'm actually not into this type of music at all, but the dancing is pretty.)

Things in hats: it's called a Gamsbart and you can find more about it here.

[watervole]

That's very similar to many English circle dances. Even the clapping. The music is less energetic though.

Thanks for the info on the hats!