At the invitation of University of Orleans, the art group including 23 students and teachers from Central South University (CSU) gave 4 exchange performances at University of Orleans, Châteauroux and Montargis from October 13 to 20.
The art group performed many excellent songs, dances and folk music ensembles such as original dance drama Silk Washing in I Was Not When You Were Born, Toreador Song, Plate Dance, Auspicious Apsaras, Fairy Fox Xiuying, Sarina, Galu Love Song, Saintly Girl, Little Stream, Liuyang River and My Motherland and Me. With rigorous specialty literacy, gorgeous dancing posture, beautiful songs and demure music, the art group brought dramatic dreamlike eastern culture to audiences, offered an intoxicated art feast and received warm welcome from the teachers and students from University of Orleans and Montargis Forest Middle School as well as citizens of Châteauroux.
Zhou Kechao, Vice President of CSU said, this year is the 55th anniversary of the establishment of China-France diplomatic relation and the 15th anniversary of the establishment of comprehensive strategic partnership between both sides, and also the first year of opening the Confucius Institute, University of Orleans and the 100th anniversary of Chinese oversea student arriving at France. 100 years ago, thousands of ambitious Chinese youth including Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and Cai Hesen came to Montargis where they studied and derived new ideas, and exploded the development path for China through understanding western world. At that time, the seed of friendship between China and France was sowed. The Centre-Loire Valley Region in France and Hunan Province are friendly provinces; Confucius Institute, University of Orleans is another warm current of cultural fusion which flows into the long friendly river of both places. It is hoped that the exchange performance of CSU art group will become the model of cultural exchange between two countries, two places and two universities.
Link of performance pictures: http://news.csu.edu.cn/info/1013/142613.htm
Source: Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges
