Beijing (6) 北京
So what else can I tell you about Minzu Daxue ? Beside of Sports there are numerous other activities taking place on campus. There are many cultural activities trough the semester. This time I will tell you a little bit about concerts and dance meetings.
First I visited some kind of talent shows where students can take part in. And here you have the whole range of different stuff going on. Some people play modern music, while others perform classic music and some others perform folk music. When I went to this talent show I was kind of surprised, from outside I heard a nice punk rock tune and then when I finally got into the concert hall it was 4 kids playing really good punk rock (they didn’t look like Punks if you are wondering about that) Also a lot of people in the concert hall had these plastic clapping hands or these plastic sticks you can blow up and clap against each other to make noise. After this band I watched another 3-4 performances in here (there was one band with a guy going totally emo, a girl playing on an acoustic guitar and singing a song).
Then we went to another concert hall on the campus where there was another show going on. Here the performances where more minority’s music (even though the Punkrock band that played in the first hall also played here). During the performances some people went on the stage with flowers to hand them to the singers or they had long white scarf’s which they put around the necks of the performers (this is a kind of greeting for some minority’s and they did this while the show was going on) Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera that day so I can’t show you any pictures from these concerts. But I got some pictures from another concert where a Tibetan group was rehearsing just before the show. I think there were such concerts every 3-4 weeks if not more often but you had to find out about it.
Also every Friday evening there was a public Tibetan Dance meeting where everyone could participate. There is Tibetan Folk music played and everyone dances in a circle, I think most of them know all the dance moves, for us it was a little bit harder (I think my coordinating dance skills are also not that great) There is also a dance meeting on Saturdays but I never went to that one, I only had a friend who participated in that Dance meeting every week and she told me that they had dance classes on Friday where you could learn all the dances they danced at the Saturday Dance meeting, so my guess is that for the Tibetan dance there might also be classes where you can learn the different dance moves. I got some pictures from the Tibetan Dance meeting unfortunately in a rather bad quality as there was no elevated place to take better pictures.
