National Danish Performance Team to Visit Ghana

The National Danish Performance Team will visit Ghana from 25th January to 9th February.

The Danish Gymnastics & Sports Association (DGI) is a national organisation, working through sports and other cultural activities to strengthen the work of local amateur associations in an endeavour to promote the education of both youths and adults.

The organisation has roots back as far as 1861 where events in Denmark and other parts of Europe, led to the formation of shooting associations with the ultimate goal of defending the nation. Later the associations adopted other sports like gymnastics, football, badminton, handball etc.

On 31 October 1992 - after a century of frequent mergers and divisions of the national sports associations - two old sports associations merged, forming the modern-day DGI.

Danish gymnastics teams have been an inspiration for most of the world since the 1930's. It has, therefore, become a tradition that several of DGI's gymnastics teams go abroad in order to share the spirit of Danish gymnastics. The goal of these journeys is also to make new friends across country borders and between different cultures. These new friendships often result in international exchange agreements between local and Danish gymnastics instructors.

The Danish Gymnastics & Sports Association has since 1995 had a fruitful cooperation with Tsito Sports And Cultural Association, Tsito in the Volta Region. Several young people from Tsito have participated in The International Youth Leader Education in Denmark in order to strengthen the sports and cultural activities in the local area.

In order to find interested co-operation partners in the world of sport and to help these organisations by providing a wider range of choices, DGI has been very active in establishing ISCA, International Sport and Culture Association (formed in February 1995). ISCA is an association with at present 91 member organisations totalling some 20 million individual members from 44 countries.

According to the philosophy of both ISCA and DGI, taking part in international exchanges and events should be a possibility not just for a few stars from the world elite, but for everybody - you should not have to qualify or pass tests for it! ISCA encourages the broadest possible participation in sports and cultural activities and hopes to contribute to an understanding between people across borders.

Tsito Sports and Cultural Association, Volta Region is at the moment chairing the African chapter of ISCA.

DGI believes in the value of people gathering together. Therefore, sports festivals are arranged where many sports activities take place and diverse cultures meet. The itinerary of National Danish Performance Team in Ghana: 28th January at 4.00pm: Performance at Awusco Secondary School, Tsito, Volta Region 1st February at 4.00pm: Performance in Cape Coast 3rd February at 4.00pm: Performance at University of Science and Technology, Kumasi 4th February at 4.00pm: Performance at the palace of Ashantehene, Kumasi 6th February at 4.00pm: Galla performance Ghana National Stadium, Accra.

The Gymnastics performance will be a 1? - 2 hour event, displaying a variety of modern rhythmic gymnastics, artistic vaulting and tumbling with colourful show items. The entire programme will be a team effort and the programme will be to accompaniment of carefully selected music adapted especially for the various activities. Routines and costumes will vary continuously throughout the show.