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Show Stake Dance Festival MIA Dancers To Portray Nations The Deseret stake MIA Dance Festival will be held in the Palomar Palo-mar hall on Saturday, April 23. This is under the direction of the Stake Dance Directors, Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Christensen. Each ward in the stake has been askd to participate in this affair. The theme of the evening is the "Dances of the Nations." This is developed from the idea that all nations in the world contribute to the cultural pattern of the members mem-bers of the LDS church, and all nations help to make the MIA what it is. The final number is the standard dance of the MIA, which shows how all of the nations have developed into one cultural group. National dances from wards will be given as follows: Delta First, Mexican and Spanish; Delta Second, Se-cond, English; Detla Third, American; Amer-ican; Sugarville, Scotland; Lynndyl, Lynn-dyl, Ireland; Sutherland, South Amercian Tango; Oak City, Dutch; Hinckley, Swiss. Deseret and Learn ington have not .reported their choice. A special floor show will be given, giv-en, featuring a solo ballet, Dance of Spring, by Mona Allred, and the French minuet, by a group of dancers dan-cers from Sutheralnd ward, directed direc-ted by Mrs. George Chamberlain. The finale will be the Gleam waltz by dancers from every ward in the stake. z A practice of the entire program pro-gram will be held Saturday afternoon, after-noon, April 23, at 2:30- p.m. The directors remind each ward to keep the date in mind. Following the night's program, a public dance for all will be held to the music of Bud's band. |