Main thoroughfares in major Slovenian towns were turned into giant dance floors on Friday as thousands of school-leavers danced to the music of Strauss's "Fledermaus" to celebrate their last day at school.
In Slovenia's capital, 7,228 secondary school graduates swayed and turned to the tunes of the legendary operetta at midday on the main street running through the centre of the city.
Similar performances were staged in 23 other Slovenian towns, as well as in 13 towns in Austria, Serbia-Montenegro, Croatia and Hungary. A total of 23,628 school-leavers took part in what is a new Guinness world record for the largest synchronised dance in the world.
The mass synchronised European Quadrille Dance Festival took place for the sixth time this year, sponsored by mobile telephone operator Mobitel and staged by the Dance Association of Slovenia and the Urska dance school.
The School-Leaving Parade attracts more and more school-leavers each year: at the first parade in 2001 the number of dancers in Ljubljana was 3,128, a year later the figure rose to 8,512 in eight different places and last year the streets of 21 Slovenian and foreign towns attracted 17,060 dancers.
Rudi Kocbek from the organising committee told the press on Wednesday that they wanted to go on breaking records in the future, but they wanted to move the project to other EU countries.
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