Every so often S and walk the block to our local neighborhood center/shopping mall to see what's up. What's up a lot of the time is some type of performance/competition on a make-shift stage, and lot of the time it involves cute kids with microphones in outrageous Las Vegas-worthy outfits. A couple Saturdays ago there was a competition of sorts (Little Miss Star?), complete with a prize table (I believe the bicycle on stage was one of the grand prizes), an emcee with a tux, and a mob audience. Actually the audience is one of the cultural quirky things. While like the parents in the U.S. these parents are busy videotaping or capturing their darling's every movement with their phone camera, they also talk freely during the pieces, turning their backs on the stages frequently to do so, and seldom clap or show any emotion about the performance itself. It's mostly a reason to gather, have some snacks, and let the kids run around loose, which is great fun to see. Enjoy the photos below.
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| Last Minute Rehearsal |
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| nervous waiting backstage |
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| Busy on and off stage ramp |
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| Masters of Ceremony |
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| One of several such dances, complete with X-Mas tree background |
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| Prize from prize table |
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| Tai Tai dance group outside, oblivious to anything but their own dances. |
Fun entertainment for a mall. We should do something like that in the US.
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