Cultural cafe performance :]

On the 24th September in Stratford Upon Avon College, we had some visitors from China to do some performances in the Cultural cafe. We watched some Yao musical performance, which included singing and this thing with this pole, they wrestled and flipped, then got a few people out of the audience to join in with what they were doing, they pushed each other, and it showed how strong the chinese people were because one of the boys from the audience went straight into the wall. 
The audience looked quite shocked when the chinese lads did the flips over each other because everyone shouted 'woo' and was clapping. It also shocked people when the chinese lad pushed one of the college kid into the wall cause of the strength the chinese lad. At first when they got the pole, the audience looked a bit confused to what they were doing. You could tell on the audience face they enjoyed it cause afterwards everyone had a smile on their face.
They came over to Stratford upon Avon to show the students more about their culture. They achieved it quite a lot because there was a lot of students and teachers in there watching and clapping with smiles on their face, also everyone listened to their singing so it showed us what they sing about in their culture. It showed us a new type of sport which they do over in China, which the audience looked interested in. 


I thought the singing was a bit weird because i didn't quite get what the chinese students were singing, but the bit with the pole interested me because I liked how things like flips and pushing and acrobatics were included with a pole. The emotion  showed aggressive which i thought really linked, to the pushing. The solo singing was good I thought because singing by yourself in a different language which your audience doesn't  know was brave.    

Dancing(:

Hiya people :), its Rosie.
My first event was different to other people, I went to my normal dance school but I watched some of the higher grade whilst my grade were practicing. It was good watching a higher level because the steps were more sneaky and the persitions were perfect compared to us younger people.
The rhythm was more in time, fast but every step, or slow and gentle.
The bad thing was the atmosphere was more intense and the moves repeat more in the different dances.

Over all I thought the routines were really good and did surprise me how the different dances and moves look from an audience than looking beside them whilst myself is dancing beside them. The only thing that shocked me the most was they only do the routines once or twice so if anyone didn't get it they would be a bit stuck.

I would defiantly go watch from the audience side of the dance school again.
Rosie (: