2009 Chinese New Year Celebration

Support: Beijing Returned Chinese Association China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Consulate-General of China in Sydney

Host: Beijing Returned Chinese Association Australian Chinese Performing Artist’s Association

Date: 6 February 2009    Venue: Sydney Big Top Luna Park Photos Gallery   Web Video

During Chinese New Year celebrating days, when we were still enjoying in the happiness of Carnival Parade in Sydney, the 《2009 Chinese New Year Celebration》was opened at 6th of Feb 2009. there were nearly 2000 people came form all the way of the world to watch this cultural show, Audiences were sighing and clapping during all the night of the performance, since they were melting into the strong passion from performance, and their harts were shocked by the Chinese Cultural.

Mr.Hu Shan, Mr. Zhao Li, Mr. Yang Bo, Mr. Huang WanRong and Mr. Zhu from Chinese Consulate General in Sydney was watching the Cultural Show with the president of ACPAA, Mr. Zhu JUNWU and Honorary president of ACPAA on the later of the night. The cultural show started with the music called , and there were 20 little pretty girls running to the stage with lovely smiling and waving hands,

audiences were attracted by the beautiful music and graceful dance, you won’t allow your eyes leave from those young dancers for even a second from the dancers. Miss. Li Lin who had graduated from the Chinese Music University and Miss. Zheng Xinweng who had graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, were the super stars of this Cultural Show, this two young pretty Sopranos attracted the audiences with their beautiful smiling, unforgettable voice and indescribable skills, audiences could not stop clap from the start to the end.

For this Cultural Show, the Eastern Guangxi Arts Festival selected two child dances called < Love of Yishan Mountain> and , one Instrumental performance called < playing and singing from the heave>. In the show, the youngest actor is 8 years old, but she was not afraid to facing to the audiences, she said “when I first time went to competition, I was 2 years old.” Their innocent smiles, and unique performance give the audience unforgettable impressed.

One thing that I have to measure is the dance called < miss home town> by Sydney Chinese Dancing Group, which shown all the best of the Chinese dancing, they were using old Chinese poem’s charm, and combined with modern dance’s rhythms to showcase their artistic conception of poetry to express feelings of homesickness. was the only one program which was played by one person with one Musical Instruments, the actor called Mr. Wu Zeyi. He used suona and ventriloquist to performance, it vividly demonstrate the interaction of three generations when they are getting Jujube, this performance won thunderous applauses from the audience

The solo dances "Why Are the Flowers So Red", "Monk" and “fan girl” were preformed by the dancers called Miss. Su Xuebing, Wei QiaoLin and Yangning from the dancing university in Beijing. The feature of those dances were creating the mentality of each character, and they also shown their professional dancing skills and promoting the emotion of audience at the same time, which made the audiences felt amazing. "Clown" is an innovative from Lu Chuan Ballet modern dance school in Sydney,, it retains the grace and elegance of classical ballet, but also transcend reality and pursue the new meaning of modern ballet, a new form, it is interesting. In China, < Loess Plateau>was one fames song by Mr. Huyue, people said that he is Iconic figure singer of Chinese Northwest. Finally The China Famous solo singer Ms. Liu Shan bring the 《Habanera> to the audiences. Anyhow, the audience thanks for Beijing artists high standard of performance quality, thanks for China's young actors, and the local arts groups, expect to see the performing tour again. translate: Mr Viva Lu 卢静和