12Aug Old Man Dances Ballet
With a gray wig, rough clothing, without ballet skirt, only the pair of pink shoes shows some feminine. A 60-year-old Liu Sanmao wore like that and dance classic ballet, Swan Lake. This is the first out-of-character role performance in Hunan. Although the man was old, his ballet is up to standard and no worse than professional female ballet dancer. He told the reporter he learned traditional dance initially and performed back in 1970s. That time a foreign ballet group came and performed. He immediately obsessed with the dance and joins the training classes. Without professional dance shoes, he wore his own cloth shoes. After days of trainings, he finally improved his dancing skill. His humour makes him never become the male character in ballet, but female. He never wears ballet clothes, but disguised into village aunty.
Source: Sina