Show ls Island Dancers cers s Will Perform in Blanding Standing Arrangements have o be been n completed com tom completed for th the lamed famed Polynesian I show of Brigham Young University city sity to appear In Blanding on June JuneI I 1 I. In a program of South Sea Island Is Ise land dances and ceremonies 1 These dances dance will be fee presented a ae they are performed in Hawaii I I Samoa and N New Zealand accordIng accordIng according accord- accord Ing to Howard Hurst who Is i. servIng serving serve ing at as a general th chairman of 01 the event The program has hu been scheduled scheduled ache ache- for 8 p. p m in in the Blanding recreation halt hall The program Is being beng presented I by iy members of the KIa Ora club Maori the Alfio Atria club Samoan I and the Hawaiian club of ot Brigham Young University I I The Kia Ora club is s a group of or returned missionaries and others on the BYU campus who train rain throughout the school year yearn In n learning the native chants dances lances and ceremonies of the Maori people They are believed to be the only group in America which performs the tire ceremonial songs and dancing of ot the Maori people The Kia Ora club has toured toured toured tour tour- ed extensively most of the western western western west west- ern and midwestern states and III Into to Canada In 1955 they were 1 featured performers in the National National National Na Na- Folk Dance Festival held In St. St Louis Louts Missouri The group will be dressed Inauthentic in inauthentic inauthentic authentic native costumes They will perform In the Haka the Maori war dance which has been en handed down front generation to generation for tor c centuries the Pol Poi dance depicting the flight of the birds the stick game which Isone is isone one lone of the favorite of ot all games among the Maoris and requiring coordination and skill in order to play to-play play it and dances which depict depict de des the voyage of their ancestors across the seas This program is being sponsored by jy the Blanding Chamber of Commerce Commerce Com Corn merce as a n swimming pool fund benefit |