| On suggestion of the owner of the disco "The Stud" (Randy) Richard Lootens decided to bring into being (with the help of Randy) a dance group for Line Dance. On April 18, 1996 the first dance evening took place in The Stud. A steady group of eight to ten men met there every Tuesday. Because of the new law, governing the hours of trading, the dance evening was moved to Friday, but the number of participants decreased, so it was decided to move to the SUB gay centre, to reach new potential members. Dancing took place now once a month in the upper floor of the SUB. Because of the noisy bar atmosphere no reasonable dancing instructions could take place and so the group once again moved, this time to the Rainbowproject of the MüAH (Munich AIDS-Helpline), where we danced until February 1998. The group grew and the wish for more frequent rehearsals caused Richard to extend the frequency of the dance evenings to two times a month. When the rooms became to small the group's new home became the PSC (Care- and Service-Center) of the MüAH. |
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Ever since we do a Birthdayparty each year:
2000 in the community centre of Unterschleißheim 2001 in the "DOOM" in Kunstpark-Ost with live music of P.G. Rider Band. 2002 we had a wonderful party in the "Zunfthaus" 2003 a party in Innsbruck/Austria organized by the "Wild Horses Innsbruck" as a gift to our group! 2004 at the "Bratpfandl" in Neufahrn near Freising 2005 at the Max Emanuel Brewery with our guest of honor The John Boys Cologne 2006 party at the Zunfthaus with a Workshop from Alan Haywood from the UK. Special guests: the Wild Horses from Innsbruck/Austria 2007 party at the "Bratpfandl" in Neufahrn near Freising 2008 party at the "Bratpfandl" in Neufahrn near Freising, Guests: Gay Line Dancers from the area of Wurzburg 2009 party at the "Bratpfandl" in Neufahrn near Freising, special guest: Robbie McGowan Hickie 2010 party at the "Bratpfandl" in Neufahrn near Freising 2009 party at the "Bratpfandl" in Neufahrn near Freising, special guest: Kirsi-Marja Vinberg |
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In July 1999 we participated in the CSD-Parade, appeared at the Pumps Race and demonstrated Line Dance at the Glockenbach Street Party. With the CSD background we also changed the name with the unhappy abbreviation SAD into the much more fitting contraction LADs, meaning Lucky Afternoon Dancers. In the middle of january 2003, Richard, the founder of the group, gave up his post and the group decided to become a member of the "Team München". In may we became official members. We voted new committee members and a cashier. A new structure for our group, but good working. We've got an invitation to Rome for a performance and to join the gay pride. It was a wonderful weekend in Rome. For the first time we invited Rose Grimmer to give a workshop on our party in october. She did a wonderful job and the party was a big success! At the beginning of 2004 we had party time. Together with The Wanderers we organized a party with a workshop, given by Robert Hahn (trainer in Pullman City and leader of the Chattanooga e.V. in Nuremberg) and Manuela De Guire (president of the GCWDA), who taught us a lot of the competition dances for the 1st German Masters in line-competition. On the 17th of april we had a huge party at the Bratpfand'l in Neufahrn (near Freising). On the party Ralf and Kurt taught there brand new choreographed dance Two Cowboys Waltz (partner mixer waltz). We had about 100 guests to join the dance! In june we had to change again our training rooms. The Rainbow Cafe had a completely change and we does'nt fit anymore. Since this time we will be found weekly at the Zunfthaus-Restaurant (if booked out we are at the Roter Turm), which has a bigger dancefloor! In december 2004 Ralf and Kurt were booked to give a workshop at a party. Maud, from Maud and friends (band), was happy to learn a new dance for here dance repertoire! Through all the changings, day and place, we lost some members (job and other reasons). The women became more and a few new men joined the group. This is the reason to do a restart to become a good dance working group again. We teach every month an old dance to give the new dancers a chance to integrate in the old group! We decided not to dance on every event but we will still do a training for a good dance perfomance with a lower level (at the beginning)! This is how the group started 2005. In january 2005 Ralf and Kurt were invited to do a performance and a little workshop in Diepoldsau/Switzerland. It was a big success and we've got a good press at the local newspaper. Last year we decided to do a group dance competition and in february we went to Irschenberg where the Maud and friends line dance competition was hold. We didn't won but it was a good experience for all who joined the competition! On the 16th of april 2005 we had our 9th anniversary party at the Max Emanuel Brewery. It had a cosy atmosphere and our guests of honor "The John Boys Cologne" were happy to be at our party. We were very happy to hear last year that there is a new gay group in Germany and that was the reason to invite them for a friendship meeting. We hope we will meet them more often! In June we had our first hiking weekend in Vomp/Austria. We did a big line dance party at the hotel with all our friends from Austria. Because of the growing membership fee of Team München we decided to leave the community. On the 15th of december 9 members of the Munich LAD's met at the restaurant "Beim Franz" to found an own club. The name is now Munich LAD's Lucky Afternoon Dancers e.V.. We gave ourself Bylaws and voted a new directors board. Since February 2006 we became a legal non-profit club in Germany. During our first two weeks we got nine members more. We hope that a lot of new members will join the group to have a lot of fun with us! At the end of december 2005 the tenant of the "Gasthaus Zunfthaus" told us that he will leave the restaurant at mid of january and a new tenant will come in february. After two weeks with no dance training the new tenant allowed us to dance again at the Zunfthaus. One month before the reopening!  The Munich LAD's Lucky Afternoon Dancers e.V. mourn for Ralf Kelbch! He belonged to the group for more than nine years and died on the 22nd of March 2006 after a long fight against cancer. This marvelous Trainer and Choreographer (Choreographers name Ralf O.K.) was always an inspiration for the group and he knew to show the students the fun of line dancing! He kept the homepage running during the last few years. With his dead we have a big loss! At the beginning of may 2006, we were celebrating our 10th anniversary. We invited Alan Haywood from the UK to do a workshop (he did a wonderfull job!!!) and as guests of honor the Wild Horses from Innsbruck/Austria to say Thank You for our 7th anniversary! It was sad that they did'nt come, cause of Ralfs dead. They don't liked to dance so soon after his dead! I hope we can meet next time in a more happy situation! At the end of may we had our 2nd Hiking Weekend in Tyrolia/Austria. It was a long weekend and we had the time to visit the Black Boots and the Arizona Line Dancers at their training. On friday we all came together for a party at the Fort in Aschau at the Ziller-valley. We had loads of fun there. On saturday night we had our party at the hotel and 9 groups were visiting us. Two girls from Frankfurt, came as well. They are the founder of a new lesbian/gay line dance group. It was sad that some groups had a little fight (one group left the event!). I hope they can solve their problems in the nearer future because we like all the groups there!!! Cause of a lot of troubles with the new owners of our training place we decided on our first clubmembers meeting that we will look for a new place to dance! Thanks Irmi, that you found the restaurant Zur Freundschaft. Since November 2006 we have a new wonderful place for our beginners training!! Not many beginner trainings were canceled 2007 at the Zur Freundschaft. We have a lot of luck with the owners of that restaurant! At the beginning of March we had a benefit performance for the oldcatholic church because we are happy that we can use their rooms for a small amount for our advanced class In April we had our annual party for our 11th anniversary at the Bratpfand'l in Neufahrn which was a wonderful party! At the beginning of June we were on our hiking tour in Tirolia/Austria. We made a little Minigolf-competition and on the evenings we gave and had workshops and danceparties with live music at the Country and Western Town Aschau together with the Black Boots and other clubs from the surrounding area for 3 nights. On our general meeting in September we decided to work actively together with the Star Line Express Team to organize monthly parties! Sabine was voted as a new comitee member! We got a few new members and 2 are in sight to become members of the LAD's as well in 2008! In April 2008 we had an owners change of our training location again. From April till mid May we were without beginners training! In that time we had the time to train for our new performance at the training place of the church. Like last year, we did a benefit performance for the oldcatholic church on the 21st of June. It was for a sewing school in Kamerun (Africa). Cause of the fine weather not to many poeple were watching the great show! After a long time we had a performance on a gay pride again. We were invited from Augsburg to do a show on their event! In October 2008 we had a performance at our training location during the Country-Week. It was a nice change in the program for the viewers! This year we had our fantastic anniversary party in May with a wonderful workshop made by Robbie McGowan Hickie. First time that we had guests from a lot of new clubs and all different areas of Bavaria and Austria (Tyrolia, Frankonia and Salzburg). Everyone loved Robbie's Workshop and the party became a big success!! On the 16th of May a few members drove to Regensburg to dance in front of judges to get the sport badge for dancing in bronze! Underneath you can see us waiting for the start to dance and the lucky winners with a little bronze badge and the certificate! We had to dance three different dances in different styles. Eventually some of us try to get the batch in silver in November this year!    This year we already had 2 performances. One on a private party and the other on an opening of a hair dresser salon of one of our members. Kurt was in Copenhagen at the World Out Games to start at the Line Dance Competitions (Division Intermediate) there. He came home with one Gold and two Silver Medals. See picture!  If you like to see some small parts of the dances you can watch them at the little windows below. Gold-Dance Silver-Dance Silver-Dance with slippery floor and a Black Out! In September 2009 Kurt got a phone call from an independent band from Hamburg called &Urban Delights". They asked him to choreograph a dance for one of her new songs. They liked the result very much and so they sended a Videoteam to Munich to make an official Video for their new song. They filmed the big group of dancers (we invited some other clubs to join us and they learned the dance just for that event), a small group of dancers, than only one row and at the end only one dancer doing the dance. The video will be published at the beginning of 2010. Some pics of the Video works you can see on our pic-side and when we know the online-link to it you will find a link here!!! Thanks to the band that they paid us some dinner and drinks for our work. We all had fun doing this together! You can see a pic of the band below.  At the end of the year 2009 we had our last performance on a street festival to decorate the public christmas tree. The little workshop we made was a nice warm up because it was freezing cold! In March 2010 Kurt won the Choreography Competition of the Bavarian Line Dance Challenge with his dance "Go Harley Go". At the VIII. Gay Games in Cologne Kurt won three Gold medals at the Intermediate Individual Line Dance Competition. Andi, another member of my group got 1 bronce and 1 silver medal! In August 2010 at the III. International Line Dance Meeting in Pullman City (C&W Fun Park in Bavaria) was the first public performance of the Go Harley Go for the "Sternstunden", which collects money for kids benefit! More hundred people were dancing the dance at the Mainstreet. In December 2010 we had a performance at the Christmas Market at the Hans-Mielich-Platz. The ever growing fame of our group got us an increase of demonstrations. Here's a list of our appearances on social and public occasions: 20th anniversary of Pop As Klenze Street Festival 2000 and 2001 Glockenbach Street Festival 2000 and 2001 Summerfestival of the MüAH 2000 und 2001 Performance at Jörg Pilawa's Talk Show (Theme: I like a cowboy for husband) Blue Moon goes Country in Vollmarhaus 2001 10th anniversary of gay & lesbian deafs assossiacion 2001 Christopher Street Day Augsburg Caritas Summerfestival 2001 2nd Open Airport Country-Festival in Unterwössen 2001 Party of the Green faction of the Bavarian parliament on occasion of the same sex partnership laws 2001 Country- and Rock Night in the "Doom" 2001 alternative Wies'n (Oktoberfest) on Candidplatz 2001 25th anniversary of LC Stuttgart 2001/ECMC-AGM an american wedding 2001 Streetfestival on World-AIDS-Day in Holzstr. 2001 a whole day Workshop given by Kurt and Ralf in Bayrisch Gmain, March 2002 Mr. Deaf Leather und Deaf Bear Munich Contest 2002 "King Of Country"-festival in Strasswalchen/Austria 2002 Country-Festival in Strasswalchen 2002 1 year anniversary of the "Kraftakt"-Internet Cafe Gay Pride Regensburg 2002 Gay Pride Sportsmen-Festival at Oberanger/Munich 2002 Reisingerstreet-Festival 2002 5th anniversary of the "Münchner Schwuhplattler e.V." (gay bavarian folk dance group) Leather Party from the Leather club Rome and Gay Pride Rome 2003 Hocketse Street-festival in Stuttgart 2003 a whole day Workshop with Kurt and Ralf in Bayrisch Gmain, April 2004 Festival of the cultures at Hans-Mielich-Platz/Munich 2004 Gay Pride Nuremberg 2004 Workshop at a party in Neufahrn/Freising, December 2004 Performance and workshop in Diepoldsau/Switzerland, January 2005 Workshop and a little perfomance at the Body Up Fitness Studio, October 2005 Performance at the Malaysian Club in Bavaria e.V. in December 2006 Benefit Performance for the oldcatholic Church St. Wilibrord on the 3rd of march 2007 Benefit Performance for the oldcatholic Church St. Wilibrord on the 21st of June 2008 Performance and workshop on the Streetfestival at the Hans-Mielich-Place in Untergiesing (decorating the Christmas tree), 4th of december 2009 and 11th of December 2010 |
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But we do not only participate, from time to time we throw a party on our own: Halloween Party 2000 in the "Shockers",2001 and 2002 in "Café Regenbogen", 2005 & 2006 at the "Zunfthaus" with prizes for the costumes, 2007 at the Restaurant "Zur Freundschaft", 2008 and 2009 we made a little Party at the Community Centre of the oldcatholic church Skiing weekend with Country Night in Telfes/Stubaital (Austria) 2001 to 2004 yearly anniversary parties of the LAD's since 1999 Hiking weekend with Country Night in Vomp/Tyrolia (Austria) 2005, Kirchbichl/Tyrolia (Austria) 2006, Aschau/Tyrolia (Austria) 2007 Party with special guest Guyton Mundy in September 2011 at the Bratpfandl - Neufahrn near Freising |
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