Dance Festival

Tyaan was involved in a church dance festival last weekend. It included 12 stakes in Southern California and about 3000 youth from 12-18. She has been going to practices for several months and has put in a lot of time and long days into preparing. Our stake wasn't involved because they did the trek instead, but Upland Stake did it and Tyaan joined with them. (That is where Jon's parents live, and is the ward we were in for a few years)

This is Tyaan with her dance partner, Alex.


It turned out really well. It was unbelievable to see how many youth they got together for this event. On Saturday before the festival started Pres. Monson's daughter came and spoke to all of them. Tyaan said it was really good.



Here are a couple quick videos I got with my digital camera. It isn't very good quality but gives a little bit of an idea of what it was like. We were sitting down low in the stands so we had a good view of Tyaan dancing, but couldn't get a good shot of how many kids were on the field. They made a flag at the end using the different colored shirts they were wearing. Tyaan was in blue at the other corner of the field.

The first shot isn't even half of the kids. They didn't even get all of them out in time to do the opening routine. Tyaan's group, along with a lot of others didn't get out in time. This is mostly just beehives and a partial of the Mia Maids and Teachers.

Then there is a minute of Tyaan's dance. They did a waltz to Disney songs. We are supposed to get a DVD of the whole thing which will be a lot of fun to watch. Tyaan's group knew the dance really well so they were put up front and were on camera and up on the big screen during their performance.