Dancing grannies' costumes are a stunning surprise
Updated: 2015-06-14 10:26
(chinadaily.com.cn)
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Older dancers wear two-tone suits and silver eye masks for a performance. [Photo/Zhengzhou Evening News] |
Dazzling square-dancing in C China
Square-dancing performed by a group of grandmothers wearing half-black and half-white costumes in Luoyang, Henan province has gone viral online recently for its "disturbingly" visual effect, Chinanews.com reported on Saturday.
According to the report, the elderly dancers wear two-tone suits and silver eye masks resembling the black and white keys of a piano.while dancing to music from the opera "Carmen" in a city square.
The dazzling dance was choreographed by Su Jianfang, a 59-year-old retiree, who's a square-dance lover.
Su said she wants to perform the dance in a national talent show, and also help a seven-year-old child find his parents. The child, who hasn't seen his parents in three years, is being looked after by his 61-year-old grandfather and 91-year-old great-grandmother in a county in Luoyang.
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