In the golden autumn of October, the New Oriental Art School and Rhodes Junior High School jointly performed brilliantly.

In the golden autumn of October, the New Oriental Art School and Rhodes Junior High School jointly performed brilliantly. Sunbird website special reporter Wang Shuai. On the evening of October 22, hosted by Arizona New...

In the Golden Autumn October, New Oriental Art School and Rhodes Junior High School jointly performed brilliantly. Sunbird website special reporter Wang Shuai. On the evening of October 22, the Golden Autumn October Chinese Dance Performance, hosted by Arizona New Oriental Art School and Rhodes Junior High School and co-organized by the Confucius Institute at Alberta State University, was successfully held in the auditorium of Rhodes High School. This event also received great assistance from the Phoenix Area Overseas Chinese Association and the American Western Newspaper. New Oriental “Family Portrait” Director Hu Qiuzi: ‘We will provide you with more and better performances.’ As the artistic director of this Chinese dance performance, Hu Qiuzi has a lot of feelings. "Our teachers and children at New Oriental Art School have put a lot of effort into this performance." The main participants in the performance were students from several dance classes at New Oriental Art School, ranging in age from 3 to 17 years old. "One of the difficulties we encountered during the rehearsal is that there are many children, ranging from preschool to high school. Therefore, our teachers and children have to make full use of summer vacation time and free time to practice." This performance is not only a staged performance of the teaching achievements of New Oriental Art School, but also a warm-up for next year's Alberta Spring Festival Gala. Director Hu also specially brought an original Tibetan dance directed by her this time, "Dolma Divine Fragrance". Zhuoma Shenxiang recently participated in a performance held at Chandler to welcome the visiting art delegation from Chengdu, China, and received high praise. "Dolma Shenxiang is an original program directed by me. Our art school hopes to not only cultivate students' basic skills in daily life, but also cultivate everyone's art appreciation ability and have some original programs." Director Hu Qiuzi introduced. "We hope to use this performance as a warm-up for next year's Chinese New Year Gala in Alberta. By then we will have more and more exciting programs." She smiled and advertised next year's Spring Festival Gala in advance. Madeline Spring: "I hope more people will learn Chinese and understand Chinese culture." The other co-organizers of this event are the Confucius Insitute of Arizona State University and the Rhodes Junior High World Studies Academy in Mesa. This is where this event differs from traditional Chinese community activities: it is not only a performance of authentic Chinese culture, but also an exchange and integration of the Chinese community and Western culture. When the reporter was about to interview Ms. Dr. Spring in English, she smiled and took the initiative to chat with the reporter in fluent Chinese, "Let's talk Chinese." There is also a charming Chinese name on Dr. Spring's business card: "Sima Delin." The Confucius Institute is an official institution established by the Chinese mainland government to promote the Chinese language to the world and enhance the understanding of China by countries around the world. By opening Confucius Institutes in various countries, they serve as teaching bases for overseas Chinese learning and provide zero-distance teaching services for overseas Chinese. It is used to improve the level of local Chinese language and culture, provide more channels for Chinese language learning, and help integrate and coordinate existing local Chinese language teaching and folk cultural activities (from Wikipedia). However, the Confucius Institute is at the college level. How can it be integrated with the study and life of local high schools? Dr. Spring introduced that this is a project of their Confucius Institute. They hope to not only provide Chinese language and Chinese culture education to those who are interested in college, but also hope to start opening "Confucius Classrooms" in junior high schools and high schools to teach Chinese and learn Chinese cultural traditions, so as to cultivate students' international perspective from an early age. And this coincides with Rhodes Junior High School’s concept of ‘world studies academy’. Rhodes Junior High School is also the first school in Mesa to open a Confucius Classroom. Students from the Confucius Classroom at this school performed two wonderful Chinese songs for the audience, winning rounds of applause. Sima Delin, Director of the Confucius Institute Tradition and Modernity, East and West Although it is a traditional Chinese dance report performance, we can also experience the influence of modern factors, as well as the exchange and integration of Western culture and Eastern culture. The students who perform are basically Chinese-Americans who were born and raised in the United States. They grew up immersed in Western culture and social environment. However, whether it is the Tibetan solo dance "Blessing" or the classical Chinese dance "Yulin Ling", you can experience the strong Chinese elements and charm. In the report performances "Celebration" and "Mulan", you can also see the blond girl wearing Chinese dance clothes and dancing seriously. The students in the Confucius Classroom at Rhodes Junior High School have different skin colors, just like a small world village. However, they can perform Chinese pop songs such as "Have to Love" and "Super Star" wonderfully. Differences in language and culture have not become obstacles, but have become excellent opportunities for communication and integration. The one-and-a-half-hour performance condensed a lot of excitement. After the performance, the actors and their parents happily took photos together, and the long-lasting applause at the end should be the best reward for their efforts. New Oriental Teaching Performance Tibetan Solo Dance Blessing Angela Zhang Solo Dance Yulinling Jinnie Xie Rhodes Junior High School Chorus Super Star Group Dance Qiang Love Lively Backstage