Dance festival was amazing! And honestly there simply aren't words to describe it. It consisted of a three day conference with the youth, most of which was rehearsals. But there were also workshops with the BYU dancers and some devotionals.
Those youth worked hard! They worked, sweated, danced, played, and it was not easy! I was fortunate to be there all of Thursday, most of Friday and all of Saturday. We are all sunburnt! But it was worth it! And I've got pictures!
Tech Rehearsal, American Tribute:
Cadi with me at the Tech Rehearsal:
The Day of the Performance!!! Waiting to start Dress Rehearsal:
Elder Nash, our area authority gave an opening devotional before the Dress Rehearsal. He talked about what we need to live spiritually.
Two of my girls they were lining up to start the Dress Rehearsal:
Beehives and Mia Maid in their costumes waiting in bleachers behind the field while the Laurels/Priests dance:
Dress Rehearsal Grand Finale:
Sister Elaine Dalton of the General YW Presidency giving a devotional at the end of their Dress Rehearsal. She had just come from being with the prophet the night before during his birthday celebration. She bore witness that he is a prophet of God. She was so very impressed with the youth and their performance in the dress rehearsal! She immediately called President Hinckley and spoke to him about them and what they are doing. She told him that there is a DVD being made and he asked her to show him a copy of it. He said he wanted to see these kids dance! We told the youth this right before their first performance. We told them that when they dance out there, it wasn't going to just be for the people in the stands. They would be dancing for the prophet too! They errupted into huge cheers and applause!!!
I watched the first performance in the stands, here is the Israeli dance (my girls!):
BYU dancers:
Grand Finale:
We were all so tired!!! This was a common sight after the first performance, during lunch:
During the second performance, I took my turn backstage. We had so much to do! We had to make sure flags and ribbons were given out and collected, got kids in costumes, helped them get lined up for the next number, touched up hair and make up, even mended costumes! When we were finally on the Grane Finale, "Get Your Shine On", all we had to do was wait for them to finish! Here are some of the leaders dancing along with the kids backstage:
We wanted a picture of all the kids in our stake, but lots of them were already changing. We still got a large group and a good picture:
More pictures on my Photo Bucket album.
Here's an article from Friday, announcing the festival and also an article in today's paper, reporting on it. They are two different papers, they each had pictures too, but they aren't on the websites. Watch the Church News too, it should be in one of the issues coming up.
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