art beijing 2009.

on a saturday night. i went out with shirley du.  a date.  with johns mom.  last week, on one of her visits to the lair to drop off food and play with mia, she caught me off guard and started a full frontal interrogation on my dating life and ergo johns dating life.  with ms du being ur socialite business lady, her social network far exceeds the typical network of high powered and politically tied demographic, and as a newly retired woman, she wants to seriously tap into her network of young female women willing to date her son.  i can fully understand that moms and sons have a history of not getting along, so i empathize and try to bridge that gap for john.  we've discussed internally that this helps each other, as i am decently well versed in cultural social scenarios (as long as my mom isn't around).  so i went to the show.  

art beijing 2009 in NY, took place at the symphony space on the upper west side of manhattan.  i've attended a ton of these events, with cultural dancers, gymansts performing from overseas to give americans a showcase of asian prowess and culture.  but with my mom being taiwanese, i've only seen a taiwanese showcases.  and as china has opened up its borders the past 20 years, alongside a economic growth that seems to be gaining leaps and bounds everyday, the chinese people are much stronger today as inversely proportaional to a weakening taiwanese crowd.  im ABC.  my views are for the promotion of chinese culture without being ethnicaly prejudiced against provinces etc.  esp when it comes to women.  =)  hahaha.

this was the best asian cultural show i've seen.  the chinese, as a population superpower, are able to hand pick people for each specific area they choose to invest in, develop them, train them, and then make them shine on the global stage.  2 mc's.  both famous.  both extremely good looking.  classic elegant dresses. and the most perfect enunciation of pu tong hua, as i've heard in a long long time.  intellectual narrating and hosting.  explaining each part of the performance with intuitive jokes for the versed and for the newbies.  famous singers were brought to perform classic chinese folk, classic chinese anthems.  classic songs that very obviously came out of the mao era.  bold strong major chord melodies, all belted out at the top of their longs as pronouncing china's strength, greatness and geographical size.  the dancers, both male and female, were perfectly in sync, wore lavishly embellished costumes, radiant with color, with theme to pair with their punctual and precise movements of grace.  the female dancers, all slender, pale and delicately graceful all danced elegantly.  my favorite part of the show, were the 13 year old gymnasts performing crazy acrobatics on an elevated table.  standard trio of handstands linked together.  and then inverted pogo stick hopping while the table slowly lifted close to perpendicular against the floor.