World Ballet Competition, Xiamen guy picks gold

Xiamen Network News (Xiamen Daily reporter, She Zheng) On April 4, at the World Ballet Competition that ended in Tokyo, Japan, Xiamen dancer and Xiamen University alumnus Ou Rui won the Special Award (the highest award) of the Modern Ballet Adult Group Organizing Committee and the Gold Award of the World Folk Dance Adult Group. 33-year-old Ou Rui is the only professional player in the adult group to win the Special Award of the Organizing Committee in this competition.

The World Ballet Competition is organized by UNESCO's FIBC (International Ballet Competition Federation), attracting more than 100 contestants from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States and other countries.

Mr. Ou, a graduate of Xiamen University School of the Arts and a trustee of the Xiamen Dancers Association, is not the first time he has won a World Ballet Award. Mr. Ou, who is currently studying for a doctorate in dance in South Korea, said in a telephone interview that men often make a fuss about ballet, even though men have always participated in world-class ballet competitions, and about one-third of the competitions are men.

In 2009, Ou Rui was admitted to Xiamen University's music and dance major, and later sent a graduate student to Xiamen University. He has been studying dance with Li Na of Xiamen University's Art College. Li Na introduced that in the class, Ou Rui's body is "the softest", softer than the girls in the class. For example, she said, holding hands together and turning from front to back, some girls can't do it, but Ou Rui can.

Ou Rui started learning dance at the age of 10, and he has an innate love for dance. This love has led him to jump from the age of 10 to the present. "After the age of 30, I do feel a little exhausted, but dancing will be more mature than in the past, and thinking and creating again will be better," he said. For this competition, Ou Rui performed the original works "Endless Life" and "One Side of Pure Land".

Ou Rui is very strict about his diet management. At Xiamen University, Ou Rui only ate one or two rice at noon, and now he is the same. However, after winning the competition, he rewarded himself with a barbecue. "I will continue to jump until I can't jump," Ou Rui said.

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9-Year-old twin sisters win the gold medal in the competition

Xiamen Network News (Xiamen Daily reporter, She Zheng) At the World Ballet Competition, Wang Jiu'er and Wang Yan'er, the third-grade students of Xiamen Experimental Primary School, won the only gold medal in the children's group A.

Wang Jiu'er and Wang Yan'er, 9-year-old twins, have shown a love of ballet since they were young, the kind of children who prefer to watch ballet instead of cartoons, according to reports. The girl's family said they liked "Sleeping Beauty" the most, and they could watch versions of "Sleeping Beauty" by dance companies from various countries repeatedly, and also played separate roles, which they enjoyed endlessly.

According to the introduction, many of the young players in this competition came from professional schools, taking professional classes in the morning and cultural classes in the afternoon, while Wang Jiu'er and Wang Yaner still focus on learning, so they are also called "ballet stars trained by ordinary schools".

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