This past Thursday Ambrit-Rome International Schoolhad a Dance Festival with each grade performing. The festival featured dances from around the world. Everyone worked hard to prepare the dances and we all had fun on the day of the festival.
The 2nd grade performed a Canoe Dance
from the Haliwa-Saponi Nation of North America.
The 4th grade performed a Virginia Reel.
These are some of my 5th grade students
performing a traditional Tyrolean dance.
The 1st grade performed "Yuyake Koyake,"
a traditional Japanese dance.
The 3rd grade performed a Harlem street dance.
Prep performed a traditional Chinese ribbon dance.
The Kindergarten performed "Draw Me a Bucket of Water,"
a U.S. children's dance.
The 6th grade brought the Scottish "De'il Amang the Tailors."
The 7th grade performed "Les Bouffons,"
a Renaissance sword dance,
using sticks and pan lids for swords and shields.
We enjoyed "Kalamatianos," a traditional Greek dance,
performed by the 8th grade.
The Ambrit After School Dance Clubs performed Hip Hop.
Here are a few pictures from the Carnevale celebration at Ambrit Rome International School. This is a Grade 1 class in their costumes.
The children from the Early Childhood division of the school parade through the atrium while older students stand above on the balconies throwing streamers. 
The front door to Ambrit Rome International School. The school where I teach has been in the facilities of the Vigna Pia since 1994. The 42-acre property was originally an agricultural training center established by Pope Pius IX in 1847. During the Italian revolution it was occupied by French troops. In 1859 Pius IX opened the facility as a residential school for young people released from prison. From 1916-1918 the Vigna Pia was operated as an Italian Military Hospital. In 1921 Pope Benedict XV gave the property to the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bergamo who continue to this day to use the Vigna Pia for youth work and parochial activity.
