“The message is that no matter where we come from, what culture, what language, we are all together and united in the same purpose and same legacy,” music director Israel Gonzalez-Nieri said.
Martha Alejandra Vera Rodriguez at a rehearsal for the annual celebration of Latin American culture "Luz de las Naciones" in Lehi on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022.• On Saturdays, the basketball hoops at a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Lehi are pulled back, transforming the space into a dance studio.
“My mom has always inculcated love for dance and music. Usually in Latin America, art is underestimated, especially in my beloved Ecuador,” Vera Rodriguez said in Spanish. “Whenever we watched ‘Luz de las Naciones,’ it was something really impressive for us, to see the choir, the orchestra and the dance. It was magnificent.”
“For all those who are immigrants, these types of activities take them back to their countries. Many come, and it is very difficult when they have been uprooted. And this is a good opportunity to feel like brothers and sisters again, to remember the beautiful and sweet things of their countries of origin,” Federico Maximiliano Kähnlein, an area Seventy in the church, said in Spanish. “It is an invitation to the entire community [regardless of] religion or creed.
The ensemble prepared a dance for the song “Por eso te quiero, Cuenca” . Dancers pass around Ecuadorian brimmed straw hats and red, yellow, orange, blue and purple scarves. Rehearsals are two hours of nonstop jumping and smiling. “For people who are from South America, they love the mountains, they love their food. Those from Mexico love the folklore, and they love the loud noise in their family. And then those born in the United States, like me, we love big, diverse communities,” Villalobos said. “It’s a very colloquial number, as well. It’s more easily relatable. There’s not like this crazy symbolism in the dance, but they kind of make it their own dance.
This year’s show marks the first time that countries like Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic will be featured as a big group. It also will be the first time that the orchestra plays a merengue at the Conference Center, according to Israel Gonzalez-Nieri, longtime music director for “Luz de las Naciones.” And will feature music from “West Side Story” and “Encanto.”
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