last sunday for mother's day, along with susie, i took my mom (and my dad and uncle) to _my dream_ performance. what's so special about them... well, all the dancers and actors are from china as well as disabled. but then of course, the main reason we wanted to go was to see these deaf performers as we have seen them back in washington, d.c. in 2000. we're glad that out of the 12 acts we saw there, 8 of them were related to deaf performances. the rest of them were blind as they usually played their musical instruments or sang which did bore us out for a while.

after the show, we immediately went to the stage to try to greet the deaf performers. at the audience, it seems like we were the only ones who gave out a 'deaf' applause (hands up and waving). once we got to interact with one deaf dancer there, she invited us to go to backstage with her and the dancers. we didn't stay there too long as our parents were waiting outside in the car. we could have gone to their hotel and socialize more because they seem to be little malnurtured by the lack of foreign deafies during their america tour (LA, LV, SF, Seattle, and Vancouver). There wasn't much of advertisement among deaf community here in SF about this show. We found out about this show through a local disability organization and flyers that were posted in chinatown. of course, once i started to spread the word about this show, the show was already sold out! i think the deaf dancers would have enjoyed more had there been more deaf community involved in this.

anyway, here are the images taken from the show:



susie and cao di, one of the deaf dancers, for _avalokitsevara bodhisattva_



leading dancer/actress, tai li hua, susie, and cao di. tai li hua was at the deaf way 2 back in 2000 and she didn't remember meeting me there though i remembered meeting her there at the private artists' reception. nevertheless, she has blossomed and got a stable career going on out of this troupe.


us and some of the deaf dancers

also, they had one of the new dances out called "yellow earth" which will definitely give you a vibrant, pleasant sight to watch. it has like maybe 8 guys and 10 ladies. hopefully, the china disabled people's performing arts troupe will make another tour to usa again someday in the future, with MUCH better DEAF advertisement... ;-) you can find more info about _my dream_ at its official website even though it's all in chinese:

http://www.mydream.org.cn