Duping's 'Dangerous' dance
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April 19, 2011, Tuesday
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A VIDEO appearing to show more than 700 primary school children dancing to Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" at a rural school in southwest China's Chongqing City has taken the web by storm.
The eight-minute video appeared on China's popular youku.com website last week and quickly spread via a microblog on Internet portal sina.com.
The video, presented by Wushan County's Duping Primary School in collaboration with the local press, shows boys and girls swarming onto a dirt playground, moonwalking and dancing to "Dangerous" in the same way as the late "King of Pop" did.
The school, located near the Yangtze River's Three Gorges Dam, is surrounded by mountains. The video ends with a message from the school's faculty: "All our efforts are worthwhile as long as the children grow up happily."
"It's amazing to see children in such a remote place dance so well," was one online comment on Tianya.com, a popular forum. "I guess one of their teachers, or their headmaster, is a Michael Jackson fan."
One of the video's producers, Wang Zhonghua, who teaches Chinese at the school, said the choice of a Jackson song was because "we just felt it was animated and the children seemed to enjoy the song."
Wang and sports teacher Ran Jia watched Jackson's video and learned to perform the dance themselves before teaching their students.
Local officials were apparently unprepared for the school's overnight fame. "Modern dancing is just part of the students' pastimes," said Luo Zhongbin, an official in charge of education in Duping. "The students can keep dancing as long as it proves to be good for their personal and physical development."
The eight-minute video appeared on China's popular youku.com website last week and quickly spread via a microblog on Internet portal sina.com.
The video, presented by Wushan County's Duping Primary School in collaboration with the local press, shows boys and girls swarming onto a dirt playground, moonwalking and dancing to "Dangerous" in the same way as the late "King of Pop" did.
The school, located near the Yangtze River's Three Gorges Dam, is surrounded by mountains. The video ends with a message from the school's faculty: "All our efforts are worthwhile as long as the children grow up happily."
"It's amazing to see children in such a remote place dance so well," was one online comment on Tianya.com, a popular forum. "I guess one of their teachers, or their headmaster, is a Michael Jackson fan."
One of the video's producers, Wang Zhonghua, who teaches Chinese at the school, said the choice of a Jackson song was because "we just felt it was animated and the children seemed to enjoy the song."
Wang and sports teacher Ran Jia watched Jackson's video and learned to perform the dance themselves before teaching their students.
Local officials were apparently unprepared for the school's overnight fame. "Modern dancing is just part of the students' pastimes," said Luo Zhongbin, an official in charge of education in Duping. "The students can keep dancing as long as it proves to be good for their personal and physical development."
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