www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / People

Hip hop granny is breaking the mold

By Cao Yin | China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-02 14:00

Despite opposition from family, friends and even her dance teacher, 72-year-old Wu Ying turned her dream of becoming a performer into a reality, Cao Yin hears her story.

On the hip hop stage, young people wearing loose, colorful clothes and rapping take the leading roles, but among them a well-dressed woman stands out and receives more applause. The woman is 72 years old.

Unlike other elderly women, who are busy with housework or have resigned themselves to a quiet life, Wu Ying, arguably the oldest hip-hop dancer in China, has found another way to spend her time.

Under Wu's guidance, a team of five senior women has won many competitions in a field dominated by young people. Audiences call the women "the granny hip-hop dancing team".

"I have been racing against time and have never given up my dreams to dance," Wu told METRO with obvious confidence.

In the 1960s, a notice about selections for new performers in Beijing attracted the 18-year-old Wu. But family pressure and objections from her workplace forced the talented young dancer and actor to return to her original job.

"I preferred challenging and exciting work rather than a monotonous one, but I had no choice at that time because I had to earn a living," said Wu, who used to do the construction budget, and settled accounts for a company.

However, Wu's dream of being a performer never died and has burst into life now she is retired.

She has never forgotten the date, Aug 6, 2003, when she first saw hip hop on a TV competition. Her dancing team took shape soon after that.

"The novel dancing style and the dancers' cool clothes fascinated me, but I realized that no older people participated in it," she said. "This aroused my fighting instincts. I decided to establish an old people's hip-hop team to take part in a dancing competition the following year."

Wu started to imitate hip-hop stars' clothes and practiced rap every day.

However, contrary to Wu's expectations, learning hip hop and forming a dance team proved difficult. As well, younger people tended to ignore her.

At the beginning, a 22-year-old coach did not want to teach Wu because of her age, her physical condition and her memory. Meanwhile, Wu's neighbors, who were mostly professors and teachers, disapproved of her unusual clothes and thought what she did was not suitable for a senior citizen.

"I ignored their comments," Wu said. "I insisted on doing what I wanted to do because I knew I was right and I could do it."

At classes Wu stood in the first row to follow the coach's fast movements and afterwards wrote down each main point.

She also bought a hip-hop CD to become more familiar with street dancing. She even dreamed about hip hop.

In this way, she knew every movement after three months. This amazed the coach and greatly encouraged Wu, who started looking for dance groups.

At first, few elderly people wanted to join her team, most of them believing hip hop belonged to the younger generations.

What was worse, Wu's daughter, a civil servant in the city, laughed at her mother's behavior and they had many quarrels about it.

"She thought I was running wild and didn't want to go out with me," Wu said, adding that the disapproval of her close family members saddened her.

Although she felt misunderstood and depressed, Wu was starting to find dance partners. On Feb 10, 2004, she finally persuaded four aged people to learn hip hop from her.

From that day when her dance team was founded, Wu threw herself into hip-hop exercises.

"I forgot tiredness and was full of energy," she said. "I had a great passion for it and enjoyed the dancing process with all my heart."

On July 9, 2004, the granny hip-hop dancing team, with an average age of 60, took to the stage at China's hip-hop dancing competition and was voted the No 3 team.

"Compared with the young competitors, our team was very nervous," she said. "With our muscles tense, we danced mechanically. But we weren't intimidated by the younger people and performed more than 300 movements in our three-minute routine."

After that, Wu developed more hip-hop moves and has never stopped pursuing her dance dream.

In 2007, the granny team was invited to perform on China Central Television's 2007's Spring Festival Gala.

Since then, Wu's daughter has changed her mind about hip hop and has helped the granny team, because she realized her mother was doing what she really loved.

"My daughter gradually accepted me as a fashionable mother full of young people's ideas," said Wu. "Eventually she joined us to become the youngest member of the team.

Now, Wu teaches hip-hop classes at a fitness club and calls on more senior citizens to dance as a way to enrich their later years.

"Although we are old physically, our states of mind shouldn't fade away," she said. "The aged must lighten up their lives and be part of the modern world."

Wu raised her head and said: "I don't want to be a watcher. I want to take a leading role in my own life."

Dancing on the hip-hop stage with young people and her older colleagues, Wu has never felt lonely and has enjoyed every second, because she is living a dream she has had from her childhood. "My springtime set off again," the hip-hop granny said with a big smile. "My dancing dream is blooming now."

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美成人免费午夜全 | 午夜精品尤物福利视频在线 | 久久99爱视频 | 欧美日韩高清观看一区二区 | 久草免费资源站 | 中国黄色一级大片 | 国产dvd毛片在线视频 | 亚洲天堂视频在线观看免费 | 美国毛片一级视频在线aa | 免费的特黄特色大片在线观看 | 美女张开腿让男人捅爽 | 国产精品亚洲午夜不卡 | 国产精品男人的天堂 | 日本手机看片 | 国内精品美女写真视频 | 亚州一级毛片 | 国产高清一区二区三区 | 欧美大尺度免费一级特黄 | 男人v天堂 | 成人 在线欧美亚洲 | 免费在线观看一级毛片 | 韩国三级日本三级香港三级黄 | 亚洲免费久久 | 国产一区二区三区在线观看视频 | 在线日韩中文字幕 | 日本黄网站高清色大全 | 国产人妖xxxx做受视频 | 韩国在线精品福利视频在线观看 | 一级免费a | 亚洲欧美日韩在线观看二区 | 国产成人精品在视频 | 日韩一区二区三区在线 | 高清欧美日本视频免费观看 | 成年人网站免费看 | 在线观看毛片网站 | www.午夜| 日韩一区二区在线免费观看 | 日本成aⅴ人片日本伦 | 久久视频在线播放视频99re6 | 成人午夜视频在线观 | 国产精品一区久久 |