ADELAIDE, Australia—A number of dancers and dance fans were at the final showing of the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular at the Adelaide Festival Centre Theatre, April 15, 2008. They said they were impressed with the level of professionalism and skill involved in the performance.
Sharon Cartwright was out with her friend Naomi, and was impressed with what she had seen: "I'd be interested to know how many performers, the amount of people that come out in the many different dances," she said. According to Sharon, the performers had undertaken a difficult feat, "…to have that kind of—not just one or two routines, but so many different routines—it's just incredible."
She thought it took a lot of energy, "…and memory, and I mean, they're not easy dance moves. So I just think the skill involved to be part of the show would be incredible."
"I've actually been watching 'So you think you can dance?', and they tell you [about dance] … and I thought 'wow', so that's really hard to do, when they were doing those sorts of things."
Her friend, Naomi Hodges, who works in marketing, agreed: "I'm surprised as well at how young some of them seem … that's quite impressive.
"And just to be in synch like that, and to do that in not just one or two dances, but that many, it's just incredible, incredible talent. And with those drummers, pretty much that whole time, probably like 20 people on stage, but every single drum beat was in time with each other."
"I like the long sleeved one, I thought that was just beautiful," Sharon said as she shared her final thoughts, "and they're such good costumes … that's what I'd probably tell people afterwards."
A married couple, Imants and Ludmila, who have been involved in ballet and folk dance for decades, also came to the final evening performance in Adelaide. "I really enjoyed that second, the water nymphs one ['Nymphs of the Sea'], that was beautiful… it was different, and very effective," Ludmila explained.
Imants was able to comment on specific aspects of the performance because of his dancing background, though he said "It's hard to compare because of course the Chinese way of dancing is, I suppose different in a way to many of the Western dances." Ludmila added, "…though it's not that different to classical ballet."
"I'd say it's moderately difficult," Imants said of the dancing, "especially the formation work and that sort of thing, even the patterns, sometimes hard to make—but they're [the dancers] really together." Imants previously had a lot of experience in Latvian dancing, which includes a lot of formation work, Ludmila explained. She said of the performance: "I'd say it's fairly difficult."
Imants thought "They were all pretty good, though the drummers at the end there works really well, it just gave that energy to the whole thing."
"I'd recommend it," he said, and Ludmila concluded: "Especially if you enjoy dance."
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