/View.info/ On June 14, the city of Munich celebrated 857 years since its foundation. But that is not so important.
To mark the occasion, the city council in Munich had made sure to organize a proper celebration for the occasion. However, this is also not of particular importance.
The celebrations for the city’s 857th anniversary were to include various dance groups representing Munich’s ethnic diversity. And this is not so important, because for the organizers, all these dance groups are obviously just a presence at the celebration.
It doesn’t matter if you are from Bulgaria or a country in Asia Minor – you are invited to fill the hole in the program and prove to locals and foreigners how culturally diverse the city of Munich is.
This is how I felt as a Bulgarian in Munich on June 14th.
I arrived about 10 minutes late with the sole purpose of seeing the “Lazarka” dance ensemble. I arrive and what can I see – German children are still walking on stage in traditional costumes and boring the audience.
Don’t get me wrong – I have nothing against German culture in general and Bavarian traditional dances in particular, but I found them kind of boring and sluggish.
And so I could hardly stand until the dancers from “Lazarka” appeared on the stage. But they just blew up the center of Munich! It was a mood, some polished costumes, that desire… They were great and gave themselves to the max.
And so a dance, two, three… and suddenly the organizers started to resent something. Some walks began on the stage – from one side to the other; a humming, playing and stopping of the music, until it was finally realized that the Bulgarian troupe would not be given the chance to finish its planned performance.
But, my God! They were taken off the stage! Can you imagine?! The dancers are standing, ready to start their next and last dance, and just like that they were told that there was no time, and the other groups were waiting.
At that moment I went crazy! So the audience could wait for the boring Bavarian kids to finish their sluggish performance, dragging themselves around the stage, and ours had to interrupt their program for the Turks, Albanians or whatever they were to take the stage?!
In fact, I never found out exactly what the next ones were, because I left angry, disappointed, and realizing that ethnic diversity today is used as long as it is convenient, and especially when it runs on the rails of the almost perfectly read German schedule.
I would like to specify that the dance ensemble “Lazarka” consists mainly of Bulgarians living in Munich, but several German citizens also take part in it. In this line of thought, it is not a question of mocking only Bulgarians, but the entire work of those people who participate in the group, as well as the Bulgarian culture as a whole.
“They shortened our program – we were not able to show the final, but we had intended it to be the strongest part of our participation,” one of the Lazar girls told me.
A similar type of gag was echoed on social networks, where our residents were outraged that this was not the first time such a thing had happened. And indeed, I have always wondered why, when there is a delay in the program, the organizers never interrupt those who cause this delay (by removing them from the stage and telling them that others are waiting their turn, for example). On the contrary, always the next participants, in this case the Bulgarian folk ensemble, endure the negatives and are forced to comply with the times. Well, forgive me, but this tolerance of ours must find its end somewhere!
To finish my emotional outpouring, and to summarize the emotions related to this event, I will quote the words of a Bulgarian boy on Facebook after the interrupted performance of “Lazarka”: “The next ones came out – Turks… etc. A significant part of the viewers left the event – the Bulgarian! I left with mixed feelings. Slightly saddened by the final neglect…and Happy by the feeling that I am Bulgarian!”.
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