“The Needse Havezathe Dansers” is a group of 37 dancers and 4 musicians.
They play the accordion, musical leader is Henk Landkroon.
The village Neede is in the East of the Netherlands near the German border.
In the past, about 1900 it was a very poor part of the country.
Most people were farmers.
This you can see in the cloth our folk-dans-group wear.
The men in black and the women have a little color in the dresses, because it are the old Sunday cloth who they wear now during the day.
No luxuery,ore gold or silver ornaments for the women, only a silver watch on a chain for the men.
We all dance at wooden shoos, called “klompen”.
Our group started in 1998 with about 10 couples.
The performances we give are mostly in the senior –homes, dance festivals, shopping centers, and hospitals and naturally at the International Dutch Jam-market, which every year is organized in Neede, by the local-government.
The dances are authentic. We have a dance-teacher who comes every Wednesday to learn some new-old dances.
Some are very difficult, and some are easier to learn. Just as the music.