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Show Marianne Holman performs with BYU (lancers on European tour "V Before a standing Confolens, France oyu's International Folk Dancers including Q Marianne Holman of Ui: pleasant Grove, ended a ll Jiumphant two-month wur of Europe recently, 'l' apturing the enthusiastic en-thusiastic praise of t0reign journalists and H influential folk dance !; V officials- V one French S newspaper reporter said "They charm the S audience. Everything is S,i coordinated, from the ( color of the men's shirts to the ladies' skirts to the little hoots at just the right moment. It's obvious that much time and effort have been spent both in the intricacy in-tricacy of the costumes as well as in the choreography and the way the show was put together." Henry Coursaget, director of the Confolens Festival and president of the ruling Confederation Con-federation of International In-ternational Folklore Festivals (CIOFF), said the BYU show kept the audience "captivated throughout. I saw many in the audience with tears in their eyes and handkerchiefs in hands. That is by far the best tribute the French people could give you. They were touched." Confolens was the birthplace of international in-ternational folk dance festivals in 1956, and this year representatives from 17 nations and nearly every continent celebrated the festival's 25th anniversary. BYU student Gaye Brown was one of the four festival dancers specially chosen to appear, along Cour-saget, Cour-saget, at all major festival events. A- |