Group Dance in Chinese Campus!

From 09/01/2009,  Chinese students in the middle school and high school will begin to learn group dance. This is a new policy of education in China.  The Chinese government declared that group dance will help improve friendship between students.

To help teenagers grow heathily and develop all-around, the ministry of education organized and created the group dance . And this kind of dance will be promoted in the whole country in the new semester which will begin in September1. And waltz, ballet, ballroom will be compulasory items for high school students.

The leader Yang Gui Ren said�/SPAN> during the process of choreography, the experts have taken into account the emotional factor of students. Students will change their partner from time to time, which give them opportunity to know different people.

According to the ministry of education, the group dance is based on the two years’comprehenssive investigation of the experts and scientific experiments. It is scientific, educational, and uiversal, and therefore is suitable for students.

Yang emphasized, �/SPAN>Students are likely to get tired of the dance if they repeat it every day, so the ministry of education will promote the second group dance as soon as possible. We also encourage schools to choreography by themselves, and that can increase students�interest. In the future, we will pay more attention to the western regions of China and create group dance more suitable for them.�

Campus group dance is beneficial to national quality. But it will not replace current campus gymnastics.  Yang pointed out, group dance such as ballet, waltz , its purpose is to give students art experience and aesthetic education while gymnastics is for exercise and fitness. There is big difference between the two items.

Now 72.3% students are supportive of this new group dance.