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These Dancing Aunties seem to be informal groups, found all over the cities of China.
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HISTORY IS MADE: More than 18,000 aunties dance in unison to “Xiaopingguo”.
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shanghaiist
China’s dancing aunties fight back, government retreats
Following public outcry and the realization that China’s dancing aunties cannot and will not be tamed, Chinese sports officials have clarified what they meant about “regulating” square dancing, a widely popular and somewhat notorious hobby among elderly folk in the country.
China’s sports and culture authority announced earlier this week that it planned on putting dancing aunties in line with “unified national routines” that would be decided upon by a panel of expert dancers and fitness trainers.
The plan naturally became a subject of mockery among media outlets and a cause for concern among China’s square dancing communities, consisting primarily of elderly and retired citizens who merely want to promote a healthy form of exercise while boogying down with their bad selves.
Aside from the bizarre and unnecessary bureaucracy behind it all, the so-called “regulated” square dancing doesn’t even help to address the main issue among residential communities when it comes to aunties’ courtyard cavorting—the noise. …
A set of 12 standardized dance routines set to the overplayed tune of “Little Apple” isn’t likely to resolve this, and ultimately (some might say most importantly), it makes the dancers unhappy.
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The Straits Times
Dancing aunties in China a nationwide phenomenon – and a source of debate
“Da ma” – women, mostly middle-aged or retired and freed from the constraints of work and raising children – dance in public spaces around China in the mornings and evenings. They have been blamed for taking up too much public space and dancing in the wrong places, such as rail stations and highways. — PHOTO: CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
The da ma have been blamed for taking up too much public space and dancing in the wrong places, such as rail stations and highways, and even in front of the Louvre in Paris and Red Square in Moscow.
The loud, amplified music they use has irritated neighbors, who have fought back in a variety of ways, such as using loudspeakers to drown out the “noise” and in some cases going as far as firing warning shots in the air.
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Dancing aunties in China a nationwide phenomenon – and a source of debate
Chongqing’s dancing aunties protest the new iPhone 6 http://shst.me/8u3
A crowd of 30 middle-aged folk were spotted dancing to the ever-popular (now ever-irritating) “Xiao Pingguo” at a plaza in Chongqing while holding up cardboard cutouts of the new iPhone 6, urging their fellow people be conscious and rational when purchasing the latest Apple product, according to China News.
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eChinacities
Unstoppable Dancing Aunties Dance in Aisle of Sleeper Train
Sep 19, 2014 By eChinacities.com
The unstoppable force of nature that is China’s dancing aunties are at it again, proving there is no space too small, or time too inconvenient to stand between them and their daily dancing fix.
This time, a group of over twenty 50 year old women brought their show to the T131 overnight sleeper train from Dalian to Shanghai on September 14. At around eight in the evening, they started blasting the techno on a portable radio and dancing their routine in the narrow train aisle, bothering other passengers who were trying to rest.
They apparently stopped after half an hour when they were discovered by members of staff on the train, showing themselves to be surprisingly compliant- unlike these dancing aunties in Wenzhou, who refused to stop dancing even after they had dogs set on them, and poo thrown at them.
Source: sohu.com
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Eric Fish Dancing Beijing aunties surround “play Japanese devil” with toy AK-47s in street performance
STOMP Russian police called after China aunties start dancing in the Red Square http://bit.ly/1skhDer
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