ANTWERP—Jewelery Designer Max-Laurent De Cock has seen a lot of Chinese dance, but says the Chinese Spectacular is something quite different.
"I find the show very amusing … Sometimes it looks a little bit naďve, but honest. Very honest and pure. That's what I saw today," he said of the show which played at the Stadsschouwburg Theatre on Tuesday night,. Professor De Cock is a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
He said this show was very different from those he had seen in Mainland China.
"I'm saying this show is pure because I saw many dances in China, and if you come more in the center of the country, then there is more propaganda in the music. That's what you didn't see here.
"This show tries to show the purer things from China, the real Chinese feeling I had in Taiwan—now I see this kind of spirituality again in those dances and less in the normal dances I was in China.
"And I also think Chinese have a special kind of humor, also in their dancing and in their acts—that's what I found out today."
He enjoyed the Mongolian acts the most.
"I have visited Inner Mongolia and Xin Jiang many times and I saw a lot of Mongolian dance and I feel many similar things here—also with the shoulders and those things, I recognize very clearly the act."
He said he thinks the show is honest.
"It's an honest show. It's real and without too much frivolity. What I saw is really pure. Also the dresses were nice and I like the music. I like the music very much. Very good."
He enjoyed the singers and the two-stringed erhu instrument.
"I saw this instrument with the two strings before, I even saw it in Russia. But here it was more sophisticated. That's the difference. A more pure and very nice sound, very nice."
Professor De Cock has exhibited art in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally.
He often travels to China and is quite well known in China.
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