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Show Will Tour Japan will perform a kaleidoscope of dances, songs, rituals and folklore folk-lore in a brilliant array of color and high-speed precision, including in-cluding dances from Japan. Hungary, Mexico and the U .S. The New York Times described de-scribed the group as "bright shiny, and enthusiastic. They have folk dances from a dozen countries in their repertoire and present them with the relentless re-lentless gaiety of a color spread in the National Geographic." Y " L Local residents Jan Larsen. Davia Duggar and David Howell will tour Japan. Korea and the Philippines June 16-July 16-July 19 as members of the International In-ternational Folk Dancers at BYU. JfAN IS from Kaysville and is a freshman at BYU majoring in dance. Duggar, a senior at BYU majoring in English, is a Bountiful native and has toured with the International Folk Dancers through the Soviet Union and the eastern European countries. Last summer he was able to perform per-form with them in Japan. Howell is a junior at BYU majoring in business management manage-ment and is also from Bountiful. Unbelievable Seeing ourselves as others see us wouldn't do any good. We wouldn't believe it. -Scoop. Winter Harbor JAN LARSEN THE FIVE-week tour of the Orient will include performances perform-ances in Seoul, Manila, Osaka and Tokyo, with a special performance per-formance at "Portopia '81," the Kobe Port Island Exposition Exposi-tion commemorating the completion com-pletion of Port Island. The 32 dancers in BY U's International In-ternational Folk Dancers are selected from hundreds of BYU students involved in the university's folk dance program. "THE STUDENTS on tht folk dance teams are noted for their expertise and their determination deter-mination for excellence," says Mary Bee Jensen, founder and director of BYU's Folk Dangers. Dan-gers. The Folk Dancers have toureii Europe each summer for the paM 16 years and will be making theV second appear-'ance appear-'ance in Japart this summer. WEARING a variety of authentic au-thentic costumes, the group DAVID DUGGAR |