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To stay healthy and fit, Chinese students do group exercises every day at school. Most of you probably do the same set of exercises. But some school exercises have grown popular online due to their local and innovative designs.
Singing in Sichuan dialects with energetic movements and unique mask-changing is not just a Sichuan Opera performance. It's the routine exercise for students of Mianyang Foreign Languages Experimental School in Sichuan Province.
"Sichuan Opera is a local opera, and it is now facing a gap in inheritance (传承). Therefore, we cooperated with Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Centre of Mianyang to create a simple and easy-to-learn Sichuan Opera exercise," said Shen Junhua, who is in charge of organising the school's exercise between classes.
According to Shen, this new type of exercise has been practised since 2017 and has been popular among students. When students enrol (入学), they will spend several weeks practising it. At present, almost all of the students and teachers have mastered it.
"In fact, we had hardly heard of Sichuan Opera before teachers taught us how to do the Sichuan Opera exercise," said a student in eighth grade who also joined the school's Sichuan Opera club out of interest. "It's very different from normal exercises. After practising it, we found it very beautiful and became interested in it. Now, almost all of the students look forward to our daily exercise time and feel excited to do it. "
"By combining the opera with daily exercise, the daily interclass activity allows students to perceive and understand Sichuan Opera culture," Shen said. "After years of continuous effort to spread the seeds of traditional culture, the younger generation is finally catching on."
Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.
We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.
"I adore dancing," says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa. "I can't imagine doing anything else with my life." Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. "Teaching dance is wonderful. It's great to watch them. For many of them, it's a way of meeting people and having a social life."
"I can tell you about one young couple," says Bridges. "They're learning to do traditional dances. They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile. "
So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says, "Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and better. I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I'm alive. "
A. So why do we dance?
B. Dance in the US is everywhere.
C. If you like dancing outdoors, come to America.
D. My older students say it makes them feel young.
E. I keep practicing even when I'm extremely tired.
F. Dancing seems to change their feelings completely.
G. They stayed up all night long singing and dancing.
Music is something I could never live without. Without music, I was 1 and would only talk when asked to. Music allowed me to 2 myself and be as loud as I wanted to. Singing my 3 out during choir class, auditioning (试唱) for choir concert solos, and trying out for the school play, I felt most like myself. There was nothing that could keep me away from my 4, until high school.
Everyone who wanted to be in the show choir auditioned for the 5, including me. In the audition room, there was a piano, notes and different lyrics 6 on the chalkboard. I hit every note, and the sound was amazing. When my audition was over, I breathed a sigh of 7. Weeks passed and the list of who had madeit to the show choir was 8. I found my name:" Angelica H—alternate (候补者)". After I saw this, my 9 disappeared. On the outside I wasn't sad, but in my heart, my whole world had 10.
A year passed, and I was at a 11 that also offered karaoke to the customers. My parents let me go up and sing. Finally, I got enough courage to 12 a song by Sam Smith and started off. While I hit the high notes, people eating 13 for me. I realised I did not get into one programme but that did not mean that I had to give up all 14. I still liked singing. The lesson I learnt was that if you are 15 or do not get what you want, and it is something that you're in love with, don't give up.
Beijing Opera is form of Chinese opera, (combine) acting, talking, singing, music, dancing and acrobatics, all of are difficult to master. That's it is one of China's national (treasure). There are four roles and each role has (it) own singing and acting styles. In early days, Beijing Opera was usually performed on open-air stages, so the performers had to sing very high voices in order to be heard over the crowds. And in the past it was often performed on stages that were (light) only by oil lamps. The costumes had to have bright and colourful patterns. , it would have been difficult to attract the audience's attention. It's (absolute) amazing.
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