Concert season

The New Year concert season has started.   Students from each department or group of departments presents one  for their own students.  Its held in the college theatre which is pretty large but never big enough for all who want to attend.   I’ve been to two, have forgotten the date for the one for the whole college and will try and arrange an invitation to tomorrow night’s concert.   Each one is a well rehearsed, well produced series of variety performances hosted by 4 to 6 students and presented mostly in rented finery.  These photos are the best from over 4 hours of performance.

Don’t think I’ve been to any  concert in the theatre which hasn’t had a martial arts item.  This one provided a bit more colour and variety than others.

Some sort of patter where performers feed off one another and where one  frequently  recites a great list of words at breakneck speed to great hilarity from the audience.  This is a common style of performance and very popular.

Dance performances in ethnic style costumes are another favourite.  Here are girls from the Engineering Department.

Another night and girls from the Foreign Languages Department etc.  Dance performances are about the only time any flesh is displayed.  There are no skimpy t-shirts or big gaps between top and bottom garments here.  

The boys danced alone and then joined in with the girls.

The boys from the Foreign Languages Department  Dept etc  doing a dance involving a wolf.

Two nights later the Engineers are wearing pretty much the same costume and doing one involving a horse.

A group of male engineering students performing a modern dance.

A skit involving one of the early emperors.

One of the students did tricks with his bike alternating with another doing breakdance moves.  Breakdance is also popular and groups of breakdancers often show up in student concerts.  Concerts are held for other reasons and are presented in a much smaller venue off the gym.

Not entirely sure about this one apart from it being boys dancing as if they were girls.

Individual singers are another popular item.  All of these sang individually and then together.   Most of them had very good and powerful voices and were popular with the audience.

This performance looked like it had something to do with flowers.

The Foreign Languages Dept etc finished with a latin style dance.

The Engineering Dept photo shoot.  All performers gathered on the stage at the finale and  departmental teachers joined them for a photo shoot.  College photographers photograph all of these performances.