Vietnamese dances her way into Chinese hearts
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For Phan Bao Nhu, a 24-year-old Vietnamese student, this summer vacation has been the busiest but also the most fruitful.
The dance she choreographed has been selected as one of the four performances to be presented in the Taoli Cup, a top national dancing show in China, and the only one featuring foreign students.
鈥淚 love Chinese classical dance and folk dance,鈥 said Phan, who studies dance at Guangxi Arts University in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Phan has been studying in Guangxi for 12 years under a university exchange program with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. She speaks fluent Chinese and regards the region as a second hometown.
Guangxi is China鈥檚 gateway to Southeast Asia and borders Vietnam. Statistics show that more than 3,200 Vietnamese are studying in the region.
Over the years, Phan has learned many ethnic minority dances of China, such as traditional Han, Tibetan, Mongolian and Uygur dances. As a choreographer, she likes to combine the ethnic elements into her work. The dance that got her on China鈥檚 national stage is inspired by the ethnic Gin people, who mainly live on three islands off the coast of Guangxi.
Last year, Phan went to the islands and celebrated the most important traditional Gin festival with locals there. Inspired by the traditional performances, Phan created her dance named Mother of the Sea.
It tells the story of how a kind and loving ethnic Gin mother cares for her daughter and how she raises her by the sea.
鈥淭his is the first time the ethnic Gin dance appeared at the Taoli Cup,鈥 said Wei Jinling, deputy dean of the international education academy at the university. 鈥淢any in the audience were surprised to find 12 overseas students on the stage.鈥
The school started cultural exchange programs with ASEAN members in 2009. In 2012, a talent cultivation center was established in the school, which has trained more than 600 people from ASEAN so far.
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