Dancing Through the Years

The EuroAsian Dance Group in Stockholm, Sweden celebrates its 30-year anniversary

The iconic EuroAsian Dance Group, founded in Stockholm, Sweden by Ditas Magarin Enström, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a colorful and delightful variety show. The program featured a wide range of dances, a guitar duo concert by the Lakbai Duo—a guitarist couple from Manila—a buffet dinner with the newly appointed Philippine Ambassador to Sweden, H.E. Patrick A. Chuasoto, as guest of honor.

Thirty years of delighting not only the Swedish and Scandinavian audiences but also as traveling guest performers to other European countries, with their authentic, charming, lively Filipino folk dances and music is an awesome achievement.

We are deeply thankful and grateful to Ditas Magarin Enström, the dance group’s founder and first choreographer. When she arrived in Stockholm in 1986, she had no plans to start a dance school. Eager to find a job to earn a living, she became a dance instructor at a local community school, teaching jazz, disco, Latin, and show dance. Dancing was in Ditas’ blood—she has been performing since her early childhood in her hometown of Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte.

Over the years, she's not only taught dance to people of all ages—including children in the Filipino communities—but also trained other dancers to become instructors and choreographers like herself.

And finally in 1995, the time was ripe for Ditas to formally establish a dance group to meet the growing demand for cultural performances from various communities and organizations, and even foreign embassies. At first, the members of the dance group came from other parts of Europe and Asia, hence the name EuroAsian.

Today, all its dancers are Filipinos, many of whom joined as children, often alongside their parents who were among the group’s first performers. The mission remains unchanged: to present the most authentic Filipino dances to Swedish and European audiences, and “to promote, preserve, and share the best of our cultural heritage so we can take pride in who we are.”

Ditas emphasizes that the group’s success is the result of years of tireless dedication, hard work, and, above all, love—from the dancers, their parents, relatives, friends, and countless supporters near and far. “Without these people,” she says, “the EuroAsian Dance Group would not have come this far.”

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Ditas and her lovely, talented dancers. Thank you for being a source of pride and joy to our communities. May you continue to dance and inspire for many more years to come!

Mabuhay ang EuroAsian Dance Group! Mabuhay si Ditas Magarin Enström!