A Visit to Gyumri Aesthetic Center on June 11, 2005
Parents watching dance
Staff, Relatives, and Students of the Aesthetic Educational Center of Gyumri watch and keep time as older students perform a welcoming dance for Birthright Armenia visitors
Welcome dancers

We were greeted on our arrival by a dance group of students performing a traditional folk dance on the pavement in front of the Gyumri school and orphanage. Their bright-colored costumes were fashioned at the school in the national hues. After the festive welcome we went into the school for a tour of the school and its galleries.

 
paper plates
hand puppets
  
Painted paper plates on display in the downstairs school gallery.
Puppet shows are a mainstay of the children's entertainment.
 
painting
 paintings  
Dramatic painting by student Chorig Matuyan
Portraits in the studio
 
2 girls dancing
dancing
  
After the tour the music started up again and everyone danced.
 
 
arched windows
Delicate hand-painted curtains on the arched windows of the school's second storey dance studio
Tamara at loom
Tamara sits at carpet loom in School classroom
School Director Susanna Mkrtchyan addresses the visitors in the dance studio.
 
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