Thanks to all who came out to Carnival yesterday, we all had a lot of fun and we hope the kids did too! Thanks to Sympoh and Triple 8 for performing/teaching 🙂
Photos are now uploaded here, download as you wish!
Thanks again!
Elizabeth, Linda, Jessica
For everyone who watched the Triple Eight show this weekend: did you like the music?
Most of the contemporary pieces featured Korean pop music (known as “Kpop”), which is very popular among Asian-Americans, including Chinese-Americans like myself. Actually, I listen to more Kpop than Cpop (Chinese pop music).
However, if any of you remember the circus-themed final number, that piece was set to a Chinese pop song by one of the most famous modern Chinese musical artists, Jay Chou.
I absolutely adore Jay Chou, and I will write a far more thorough post about him in the future, but for now – if anyone is interested in that song, here it is! “é”术先生” or “Mr. Magic”
Not one of my favorite Jay Chou songs but it was very fitting to the choreo and the show, and I thought it was a phenomenal closer!
I will be posting plenty more Cpop in the future, especially by Jay Chou; but if anyone would like some more info on the Kpop, that won’t be going on the blog, so you can email me for more info/recommendations ecai@princeton.edu
The next upcoming event is the annual dance showcase for Triple Eight, the East Asian dance group on campus. This should probably be interesting to all the girls but particularly the ones who dance, most of whom were assigned to mentors who are actually in Triple Eight.
Triple Eight does a wide variety of performance, from traditional and modern dance (set to modern Korean, Chinese, and Japanese pop music) to martial arts. Triple Eight hasn’t released a show teaser yet; here is a link to their performance at our Moon Festival event in September, a showcase of all their styles (traditional, martial arts, and modern).
There will be three show times: Friday 2/17 8PM, Saturday 2/18 5PM and 8PM. Continue reading