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The Dixon Middle School Latinos in Action perform a traditional polka dance from Guerrera, Mexico, called Las Amarillas at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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Emo’o-close Youngbull performs a Native American hoop dance at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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Lupe Fonohema, Chaille Vaticani-Sateki and Mele Mataika perform a tauolunga at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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A group of Polynesian students perform at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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Students perform an African American step dance at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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The Dixon Dance Company performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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A group of Latino students performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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Emo’o-close Youngbull performs a Native American hoop dance at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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A group of Polynesian students performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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The Dixon Dance Company performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Ashtyn Asay, Daily Herald

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The Dixon Middle School Latinos in Action perform a traditional polka dance from Guerrera, Mexico, called Las Amarillas at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Emo’o-close Youngbull performs a Native American hoop dance at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Lupe Fonohema, Chaille Vaticani-Sateki and Mele Mataika perform a tauolunga at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.


A group of Polynesian students perform at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Students perform an African American step dance at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

The Dixon Dance Company performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.


A group of Latino students performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Emo’o-close Youngbull performs a Native American hoop dance at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

A group of Polynesian students performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.


The Dixon Dance Company performs at the Dixon Middle School multicultural assembly Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Students at Dixon Middle School in Provo put on a colorful display Friday at a multicultural assembly celebrating the school’s diverse student body.

To kick off the assembly, a ballroom dance team performed an American swing dance, and Luis Reyes, a Dixon student from Chile, performed a Cueca Chilena to the Chilean flag while wearing spurred boots. To Reyes, the flag stands for honor, and Cueca Chilena is about respecting your country and being proud of where you’re from.

Cousins ​​Lupe Fonohema, Chaille Vaticani-Sateki and Mele Mataika performed a Tongan tauolunga, a traditional dance typically performed by young single women, often on wedding days.

Brielle Anderson, a former Dixon student now at Brigham Young University, performed an Irish reel and set dance, and students from a Portuguese class performed an Axé dance, a style that originated during the Brazilian Carnaval season in Bahia.

Dixon’s Latinos in Action group performed a traditional polka dance from Guerrera, Mexico, called Las Amarillas, or “the females in yellow,” and Dixon student Abigail Settle danced a Mongolian Bii Biyelgee, a traditional folk dance that originated from the country’s nomadic way of life.

A group of Dixon students taught by Nate Byrd, a member of the Black Student Union at BYU, performed a version of the step and stroll, and a group of Latino Dixon students performed a mix of the Cumbia Wepa and Zapateado dances.

Emo’oNEX Youngbull, a member of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux and Assiniboine tribes, performed a hoop dance. Youngbull is a two-time Intermountain All Women’s Hoop Dance champion in the youth division.

The Dixon Dance Company represented the US and danced to “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” by Toby Keith.

Dixon student Samantha Sanchez performed a Mexican dance from Jalisco, and a group of Polynesian students performed a dance inspired by hand motions from Tahiti, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii and Fiji.

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