Cultural and artistic exchange - 2020

The Idaho International Dance and Music Festival, originally named the Idaho International Folk Dance Festival, is a collaborative event between the Rexburgh Chamber of Commerce and Brigham Young University. Founded in 1985, it has hosted over 300 groups from around the world and attracts more than 80,000 visitors annually, earning it the title of the sixth largest arts festival in the United States. Every summer, the entire city mobilizes, opening its doors to families and welcoming artistic groups from around the globe.

Since its inception, the festival has maintained a long-term cooperative relationship with the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). CFLAC has sent more than ten groups to participate, including the Shaanxi Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, the Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, the Shenzhen Modern Dance Company, the Beijing Dance Academy, and the China Coal Mine Art Troupe. In 2007, the festival's 20-year contract with CFLAC ended, and it signed an exclusive partnership agreement with the US-China Cultural and Artistic Exchange Association.

Time flies, and 15 years have passed in the blink of an eye. The association has invited the Gansu Dunhuang Women's Dance Troupe, the Ordos Song and Dance Troupe, the Shanghai International Studies University Art Troupe, the Shanghai Normal University Affiliated High School Wind Orchestra, the Shanghai Xuhui High School Dance Troupe/String Orchestra, the Beijing No. 65 Middle School Golden Sail Art Troupe, the North China Electric Power University Art Troupe (visited abroad 4 times), the Beijing Second Foreign Language University Art Troupe, the Capital University of Economics and Business Folk Music Band/Dance Team, the Beijing Jiaotong University Dance Troupe, and the Hangzhou Youth Acrobatic Troupe to participate in the Idaho International Arts Festival. The five-star red flag has been raised time and again at the opening ceremony of the international arts festival.