Evolution of Dance in China
Posted on Nov 25, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Wild Wild China
Tags: dance
As you know, Evolution of Dance is the all-time most viewed online video in the US. Meanwhile, videos of dance are also quite popular among Chinese netizens. The only difference is that they’re not single dances. They’re collective.
Recently, a video of hilarious dance brought to you by employees of the Tianjin Post Office drew almost 130,000 clicks on Youku. The overactive performance had lots of girls asking online, “Anybody know who the guy with long hair in the first row is? He’s a superstar!”
The long hair guy is not alone. In the past few years, we’ve seen lots of online videos of collective dances organized by companies - from NCL Insurance’s recruiting dance, Century21 China’s morning dance, to this massive dance called “blooming lives” - which made me at least LMAO. Playing the same role as Chinese students’ “recess exercises”, the collective dances help the big bosses to build a uniform ideology on employees’ minds, no matter how silly it is.
So, what’s the origin of all these stunning dances? Check this cut scene with English subtitle from Kung Fu Soccer, a 2004 Hong Kong movie:

