Chinese Children Impress At Maitisong
Monday, April 28, 2014
Chinese dance kids performing Mantlwaneng. PIC: KEBOFHE MATHE
Starting off on a high note with a dance treatment, the master of ceremony described the performance as an ‘auspicious blessing’ that left the audience impressed. However, it was an eight-year-old girl who stole the dance performer’s thunder when she played three different instruments in one act.
As if this was not enough, a group of Chinese boys and girls later took to the stage to display their art and creative ways of telling a story in another dance and song format.
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