YEREVAN, JULY 6, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The "Barekamutiun" ("Friendship") state dance ensemble and the dancers of the U.S. dance schools, who presented dance items of different genres in classical, Armenian, modern, and jazz styles, gave a final concert in Yerevan within the frameworks of the Armenian-American cultural exchange program. According to Arevik Ashkharhoyan, the Head of the the "Friendship" dance ensemble, 12 students from the U.S. Greensboro and Archdale schools, Bethesda royal academy, as well as from Universities of Arkansas and Maryland and three leading ballet masters from the New York Broadway: Debbie Chodyniecki, Freddie Li Hede, and Natalia Davidson, conduct courses of modern dance in Armenia within the framework of the exchange program. At the same time the American students become acquainted with Armenian national and classic dance art due to the dancing-masters of the "Friendship" dance ensemble. Artak Alexanian, the producer and author of this program, mentioned that this cultural program will be continued and declared that the head of the American side of the program is Natalia Davidson, who has Armenian nationality. There was a time when she danced in the "Friendship" ensemble for a year, then left for the United States, where she founded her dance school. The author of this program is convinced that this Armenian-American cultural program can be considered successful.

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