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The 2nd CCTV Dance Contest closed on October 7 after a week of fierce finals. Wang Yabin from Beijing Dance Institute carried off the first prize in the National Dance category for her performance of "Dance with Fan". Qiu Chen along with others from the Song and Dance Art Troupe of the PLA General Political Department won first prize in the Contemporary category for "Passing Through".
Jiang Yang from the Beijing Dance Institute garnered first prize in the Modern category for "Away with the Wind", Lu Meng from the Liaoning Ballet Troupe got the gold for Ballet with a piece from "Don Quixote", and Cheng Bing, with his partner Qu Lajia, beat all others in the International Standard Dance category with their "Memories". The first prize for the amateurs went to Wu Xue and her colleagues from the Dance Troupe of Beijing No. 2 Middle School for their wonderful performance for "Fire-like Youth". In addition, 60 other works including "Balance Dance with Bowls Stacked on the Head" and "That Snowfall", either won titles of Excellent Choreography or honored their performers with Silver and Bronze prizes.
A total of 436 works competed in the first round of the contest, doubling the entries in the first contest, and 66 of them got through to the finals. The dancers came from 31 provinces, autonomous regions or cities directly under the Central Government and the Special Administrative Region of Macau. CCTV aired the 7-day long finals on its third channel. The contest drew wide attention from viewers, receiving 60 thousand calls on the hotlines and 400 thousand visits on the CCTV website during the finals.
 According to Mr. Feng Shuangbai, judge of Comprehensive Quality test and Director of the Dance Institute of the China Art Academy, the contest topped all other such kind of events in size, quality, and influence. The dance works ranked at world levels and the design of the competition was more rational than in the past. The contest should play an important role in dance development and popularization in China.
(by Deng Ying)
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| Editor: Zhao Xuan CCTV.com |
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