Members of the Adelaide German Club Bund der Bayern in full flight (:supplied)

For performers from Adelaide's German Club, it is one of the busiest times of the year.

For Bund der Bayern (Bavarian dancers) group leader Reinhard Struve, returning to the festival each year reminds him of his decision to migrate to Australia.

"I visited the Schutzenfest with my wife when I was here on holiday, and we said should we ever migrate to Australia, these guys look like good fun, so if we ever migrate we'll join the group."

Six years later the couple migrated to Australia and in 2007 they became members of the German Club.

The Bund der Bayern are regular sights at Oktoberfest, Schutzenfest and German festivals across South Australia, raising smiles, eyebrows and steins to their performances of Schup Lettland.

"It literally means 'to clap your shoes'," Reinhard explained.

"We hit our shoes, we hit ourselves."

The group originally formed in 1959 and 20 of the volunteer members will travel to Bavaria in April this year to experience the culture of where the dance style originated from and learn from some of the local groups.

"It's a refresher to make sure that we stay authentic and do the proper Bavarian dancing."

After joining the group in 2007, Reinhard spent one year learning the routines before making his public debut.

The fun and frivolity of the dances comes with the occasional bruising, as he found out last October.

"I was the one who had a black eye given to me by one of the girls," he confessed with a following laugh.

"It does happen, but it is all good fun and games."

In the past two years the group has grown in numbers substantially, with a large kids group also training the next generation of performers.

Next year the Bund der Baryern will host a national festival over Easter.

"You're going to have about 250 people in traditional costumes and lederhosen coming over to Adelaide for a weekend to have fun and do the dancing."

Reinhard also has hopes to travel the group into southeast Asia.

Bund der Bayern will perform at Schutzenfest this Friday and Saturday at Bonython Park, Adelaide.