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Dance festival participants take show to St. Anth
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ST. ANTHONY - Usually the Horsey Park in St. Anthony is filled with children playing on the new playground equipment or families having picnics. Tuesday morning, the park played host to an international event.
Chinese folk dancers and Russia-Siberian musicians took a break from performing in Rexburg to venture north for stops in St. Anthony at the park and in Ashton for lunch.
A polite but enthusiastic crowd of about 75 listened first to the music of the Russian-Siberian group, which featured a soloist who not only produced exotic melodies but also tricked a puppet into dancing at the same time, and a group of women who played a type of stringed mouth instrument.
In pale pink costumes with fans, the Chinese women dancers performed to the Jasmine Fragrance folk music, among the most famous of Chinese folk songs, according to the program the team distributed to the audience.
The teams tried to get everyone involved in the spirit of the music, bringing children and a few brave adults into a circle to sway to the rhythms and dance to the music. Most of the audience also was singing before the circle imploded and dispersed.
Almost before they had captured the audience, the teams and their entourage loaded up on the bus and headed for Ashton.
But some of the people who had a chance to see a slice of what the Idaho International Folk Dance and Music Festival is about will likely be humming a foreign melody for a while.
Chinese folk dancers and Russia-Siberian musicians took a break from performing in Rexburg to venture north for stops in St. Anthony at the park and in Ashton for lunch.
A polite but enthusiastic crowd of about 75 listened first to the music of the Russian-Siberian group, which featured a soloist who not only produced exotic melodies but also tricked a puppet into dancing at the same time, and a group of women who played a type of stringed mouth instrument.
In pale pink costumes with fans, the Chinese women dancers performed to the Jasmine Fragrance folk music, among the most famous of Chinese folk songs, according to the program the team distributed to the audience.
The teams tried to get everyone involved in the spirit of the music, bringing children and a few brave adults into a circle to sway to the rhythms and dance to the music. Most of the audience also was singing before the circle imploded and dispersed.
Almost before they had captured the audience, the teams and their entourage loaded up on the bus and headed for Ashton.
But some of the people who had a chance to see a slice of what the Idaho International Folk Dance and Music Festival is about will likely be humming a foreign melody for a while.
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