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Traditional Chinese dance at TU/e
28 februari 2008 - Far from home, it can be good to keep up traditions, even if you have to improvise. And being in technology does not mean you have to give up all your artistic tendencies. Chinese PhD students and postdocs have no such plans: they have recently started a new dance group that is meeting once every two weeks to practice traditional dance.
Pictured in the photo are, from left to right: Jing Li, Jie Yang (researcher at the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry), YuZhong Lin (PhD student at the department of Architecture, Building and Planning), Lili Wang (department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) and ZhiJun Song (department of Physics). Photo: Bart van Overbeeke

Their first performance was at the big Spring Festival party in Arnhem, with a modernized version of an 1800-year-old dance from the Han dynasty. “These old dances look great but they can be difficult to perform because they have no real rhythm. You just have to try to get into the spirit of the graceful moves. It looks easy, but it can be hard to hold some of these poses,” says Jing Li, who is doing a PhD at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science./.