The schools often have talent shows for the kids. These are taken REALLY seriously, with points awared and winners declared, even in the nursery schools .... On Friday we were at this kindergarten, and one wee girl was there in her own tribe's costume, and she did this huge long dance from her own tribe away on the west on the border with Kazakhstan .... Great. Another class' entry was a dance routine to the "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world ..." song, but all the movements and routines were traditional Mongolian.
This photo shows a dance one class performed, re-enacting "The Enormous Turnip" using traditional Mongolian dance steps.
Recently, at a different show, the judges were the Senior Methodologist and the Cook. The Cook, in fact, was a professional musician - she is Buryat, and had toured in Russia and Poland and probably other places too in communist times.
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