Next week is the year of the tiger, and with today coming to a close I got to enjoy a wonderful Chinese New Year performance by the students of UIBE. The performance featured dance, music, singing, swordplay, and martial arts.
It was hard for me to actually pay attention to the music because my main focus was actually watching the show. However, I did notice that the music plays a big role in how the performers act, like a cue of some sorts. While most performers (this is an ignorant uninformed opinion) looks to the audience whenever they're looking up during the Peacock dance, some of the performers actually don't bother to while looking up, their eyes stray away.
Peking opera slightly resembles Vietnamese opera, but I forget if it was the westerners that brought opera to China or if they had this going on all along.
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