In Zhengzhou, Henan Province, there is a group of average age of 55 years old ballet troupes, zero basis of their ballet to retain their fangzhu, with the dance to tell all the elderly, love of life, maintain a positive and sunny mentality, the age of the problem will never be a problem.
Jinshui District Culture Center Ballet Troupe was founded in March 2017, initially *** there are 18 members, all of them like dance but do not have any ballet foundation of the ladies, the average age of 55 years old, the largest 62 years old, many have become a grandmother or grandma. This is the only middle-aged and elderly ballet troupe in Henan Province.
The 62-year-old Long Jing is the oldest member of the dance troupe, engaged in technical work, she has been looking for a hobby after retirement, aerobics, square dance have learned, until last March to see the Jinshui District Cultural Center Ballet Troupe for middle-aged and older people to recruit trainees, her mind in the teenage years of the ballet's beautiful yearning to be reawakened.
The director Du Youling is also 60 years old, she grew up like ballet, in the era of the popularity of the model theater, "White Hair Woman", "Red Detachment of Women" in the ballet dance so that girls longing for, she also tried to tiptoe at home to imitate, but due to the conditions and did not go to learn, I did not expect to have the opportunity after retirement.
Sometimes asked what age the ballet will be danced to, the final consensus after the discussion was: "not demanding, as long as you can dance on, if the body can not be hard to carry."
At present, this amateur ballet troupe has developed from the initial 18 people to 24 people, won the first prize in the 2017 Henan Provincial Elderly and Middle-aged Dance Competition, "ballet grandmothers" are creating their own beautiful miracle.