Neli: "We started as being ?The Roses? a year ago when our friend Violeta Jeliazkova asked us to perform a Bulgaria dance for a concert dedicated to the Bulgarian Independence Day on March 3rd. That wasn?t problem for us because the dance is in our heart, and in fact my sister is a dance choreographer.
In 1998 she graduated the Choreography Dance School in Bulgaria, Sofia which is the only one in the nation. I was dancing Bulgarian folk as a little girl, and I love dancing, so I said immediately ? Let?s do it?.
We had a few weeks and our big desire and on March 3rd, 2001 was our first performance. Of course before that we had to figure out a name of our group (if I can say it group). We wanted to be something Bulgarian and beautiful, something that could present our country and....we chose The Roses."

Marieta: "Since our first concert we have had several performance in USA and Canada. Usually we present our dances in universities, colleges (MIT, Berklee College of Music), on international festivals, and on many other Bulgarian concerts in Boston. In spite of our wish, we are not planing to make a dance group right now because of the busy life we have (I guess that is common for many of us here in US).
We both, my sister and I, go to college and we also go to work, so just for now we don?t have that time to work and establish something for what we'll need a lot of money and a lot of time. However we are always ready to participate when we are invited. The purpose of ?The Roses? is to spread the Bulgarian folk dance through these people who love it, and to those who had never been touch by the beauty and the power of our folklore. "

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