Getting ready for Christmas Around The World

Lilette's clogging studio (Extreme Rhythm) along with other studios, is going to be part of one of the dances in BYU's Christmas Around The World this year.

Here are three good friends Olivia, Brooklyn and Lilette waiting for their number:

Lilette and her friends are so pumped. They have loved every second of learning a dance on campus with real Folk Dance college students. They smile all through every practice and rehearsal.

Here Lilette and all the "little cloggers" (that what the college kids call them) are listening to intructions:

Ed Austin (the director of Christmas Around the World) was quoted in The Deseret News and talked about it a little bit, " Another piece will highlight hundreds of students and local children in a 'clogging frenzy.'"

You can see a little bit of that frenzy in this small clip from practice:

Here are Brooklyn and Lily practicing in the Cougar Room for their performance at the Marriott Center:

And here they are performing that same step in a dress rehearsal to the music:

This is the beginning of the dance. It is called "Buckin' Appalachia-The Next Generation". Lily and the little cloggers come in during the middle of the number: