CWU Delegates Attend 2nd Dance Contest for Grassroots Women

The 2nd dance training and competition for grassroots women was held in May at Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. Students from the Faculty of Cultural Industry Management at China Women's University (CWU) participated in the event and got a decent result.

The event was co-sponsored by Beijing Social Service Center for Women and Children (BSSCWC), and Women and Children's Centers in different districts in Beijing, in order to respond to the national policy of community culture development and further improve female students' ability of social practice.    

Zhao Lijun, vice-president of Beijing Women's Federation, CWU Vice-President Wang Jingxia, and Zang Haiqun and Zhang Jie, dean and associate dean of CWU's School of Culture and Communication, attended the activity. Participants also included all teachers and students from CWU's School of Cultural Industry Management, presidents of women's federations from different districts and directors from women and children's centers.

BSSCWC selected 15 dance teams for the contest from 40 squads recommended by women and children's centers. The dancers performed vigorous and enthusiastic folk dance, modern dance and Chinese classical dancing to a professional level.

The organizers invited professionals from the dance industry and dance teachers from higher institutes to participate as judges. They ranked the teams according to their creativity, artistic expression and theatrical style.

It is the second year of the dance training and contest for grassroots women in Beijing, also the fifth year of CWU participating in the project of "bringing professional dance into the community". It has been warmly welcomed and positively echoed by dance lovers in Beijing since the project began.

CWU students were involved in various parts of the activity, including registration, guidance, scoring and maintaining the order of the conference. They became a bright part of the activity. 

With the support of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) and fully relying on the quality resource of the BSSCWC, CWU is committed to building the project into a practical teaching activity with CWU characteristics, and contributing to the development of community culture and socialist culture.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and Edited by Gender Study Network)