Yao is a culture in China. We were sent to the Cultural Cafe to watch some Yao cultural people from China perform. They were singing in what we would call a mixed choir and they then had two of the men in the choir fight. A woman described that the fight was to show who was the stronger of the two by having a push of war. It was a mixture of a push of war and gymnastics. They then had people from the audience to fight against one of the choir members which required strength and hand eye co-ordination.
In my opinion, I did not really understand the style of Yao very well. Although, I could tell the majority of the audience enjoyed the performance by the reaction of them. I think they enjoyed it because there was a lot of envolvement from the Yao group to the audience. This short teaser of tonight's more elaborate performance was successful as they were able to gauge what the audience response might be like. I enjoyed it in the way that it was unique and i did not understand it because i was not used to that type of musical culture.
They all were wearing strange, colourfull hats and silky clothes which was another part of which there culture is different.
Overall, I did not understand what they were saying. What I could understand told me that this was is a story people of their own culture knew if they were performing to their own cultural audience.
