Cultural Extravaganza

On Wednesday March 17th at 6pm, the Crossroads was filled with students from all over the world.
Colorful flags from countries around the world lined a wall. M.C. Wesly Two Eagles dressed head to toe in traditional Native American apparel, took the stage to start the nigh of East/West Fusion.

Two Eagles played a traditional son he made up and How Great Thou Art on the Flute. He later did a traditional dance and got about 25 people from the audience to come up and join him.

The Polynesian Association was definitely a crowd favorite. They performed the hakka, a New Zealand dance where the men chant, make faces, stick out their tongues, while making a beat on their chests. The members all had red hand prints on their chests after the performance. The association later did a Somoan dance in colorful sarongs, sitting on the floor slapping, clapping, and yelling in unison. The third dance they performed was a fast paced Tahitian dance.

The Latino Association's girls dressed in flowy black and polka-dot dresses did a Flamingo Dance with fans from Spain.

The African Association performed a modern dance, and skit about a king.

The Vietnamese Association in long modest dresses sang a song about their dress and how it represents Vietnamese women.

The Desi Association got the crowd excited when they performed two Bollywood style dances while they wore colorful sari's.

The Chinese Association had a girl sing A cappella Opera about women.

The Russian Association did a dance about how girls meet guys and later sang a Russian song A cappella.

"Everything went really well, minus some technical difficulties," said Eric Christoffersen, who was in charge of the event and President of the Russian Association.

The night included many skits, songs, and dances and showed that BYU-I has many talented students. It also showed that we have students from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures that we can learn a lot from.