Enter the Dragon: Chinese Music, Dance & Culture

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When:

Sun 27 Mar ’11, 7:00pm–9:00pm

Where: Regent on Broadway, 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Adult: $10.00
Student & children: $5.00
Family (2 adults & up to 4 children): $25.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

Festival of Cultures

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The show will feature over 15 acts. One of the highlights will be the performances of New Zealand's only “Luminous Dragon” team, which recently competed in the world dragon dance championships in Hong Kong and starring at this year’s WOMAD festival in New Plymouth. The troupe is in great demand; for their “not to be missed” spectacular performance which involves 13 highly synchronised dancers and live music; a masterpiece of athleticism and choreography. Also performing will be Manawatu’s own Chinese Golden Lion.

New dances will be performed by Happy Bird and the Chilli Angels dance troupes. Students from the Palmerston North Chinese language school will present a youthful display of costume & dance.

Invited performers from neighbouring countries provide a refreshing change of pace and challenges the perception of the depth and breadth of Asian culture.

Hosted by the Manawatu branch of the New Zealand Chinese Association & part of the Festival of Cultures.

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rwong 1 year ago

Chinese dance dates back nearly 5,000 years. As in most cultures, Chinese dance is closely linked to and reflective of life experiences and concerns. The NY Chinese Cultural Center identified that these traditional dances can be divided into (1) CEREMONIAL; for praying to the gods for bountiful harvests, (2) DRAMATIC; for reporting and commemorating historical events, (3) MARTIAL; for demonstrating fighting techniques, and (4) AGRICULTURAL; for celebrating nature and work.
The dances performed over the evening by Happy Bird and the Chilli Angels dance troupes will be indicative of these 4 elements.
rwong 1 year ago

Xie Feng, from the PN Chinese Students & Scholars Association,will play a piece of traditional folk music on the the guqin; a seven-stringed zither & China's oldest stringed instrument, with a history of some 3000 years. In Imperial China, a well educated scholar was expected to be skilled in four arts: Qin (the guqin), Qi (the game of Go), Shu (calligraphy) and Hua (painting). Historically, the guqin has been viewed as a symbol of Chinese high culture, but today only a few thousand people can play it, and it is rarely seen in China.
rwong 1 year ago

From PN Chinese Students & Scholars Association: A talented pianist Ma Jingjing (a past president of the University Students' Union Choir in Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ) has agreed to play a Chinese piece "Cai Yun Zhui Yue" (Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon) composed in 1935 by the great Chinese musician Ren Guang. At that time, together with another famous Chinese musician Nie Er, he wrote a number of Chinese orchestral music for an album by the EMI Chinese orchestra. “Colorful clouds chasing the moon” was one of them.