Clermont-l’Hérault’s Meng Diao martial arts club wants to create a live performance troupe to share its passion for traditional Chinese dances in the heart of Hérault and beyond.
Beijing on Salagou. Culture and sharing. Exoticism in the heart of Hérault. With, tomorrow, a company of traditional dances bringing luck, happiness and prosperity through its thousand-year-old dances? This is the goal of Chinese martial arts club Meng Diao, established in Clermont-l’Herault to create the Little Dragons troop, which is aimed at children from 7 years old.
Shows from the ancient Chinese tradition
Martial arts teacher and president of club Meng Diao, Sophie Foucher explains about a diction that perfectly spins the syllables like a well-mastered kata: “We want to set up a company, a troop with young people from the age of seven in the heart of Hérault to create shows from traditional Chinese culture, lion dance, dragon dance with its characters which move to the rhythms of drums, cymbals and gongs to deliver in this corner of Hérault – and beyond – on a larger scale in Occitania shows, street performances, on the occasion of celebrations. It can be the Chinese New Year, the Music Festival, markets, various events, birthdays, school fairs… ” The idea is to do “To participate all the young people who would bring their skills, their talent; that we also bring them to develop this company ”.
The project put to the vote of Internet users
This is why this club participates in the participatory budgets of the Occitanie Region. This original live performance project is currently being voted on by Internet users. If it is one of the ideas retained, it will be funded to the tune of € 60,000 and will therefore be able to see the light of day and perform in places like certain prestigious troupes are already doing in Paris, or Lyon. The budget is relatively large because you have to buy the lions; the dragons: costumes at 800 € each, a vehicle to transport the troops, the instruments, etc. It would be a first in the region. Just click and vote until March 15th.
Happiness, luck prosperity: we all need it!
Bring happiness, luck and prosperity with music and colorful dances: we all need it! The dragon dance with its bearers of figures of a dozen meters chases away evil spirits; the lion dance was, synonymous with good luck, much celebrated during the Chinese New Year. “The time to get the troop, to learn the dances, we will certainly be out of this difficult period of health crisis”, hopes the president, Sophie Foucher.
The first contact was while watching a TV report on tai chi, a practice that I find beautiful, harmonious, fluid, very mastered… ”
Passionate about Chinese culture and martial arts, teacher of kung fu, tai chi, chi kong (an energy art that comes from Chinese medicine), Sophie Foucher also therapist in Chinese medicine – tuina (massages), cupping – these dances come from a culture of more than a thousand years. “This idea of a troop came to me while attending a martial arts festival in a Zenith in Rouen… The first contact was while watching a TV report on tai chi, a practice that I find beautiful, harmonious, fluid , very mastered… ”
“A unique project”
” Today, she adds, ne mobilize ourselves to carry high a radiant project, of a quality dimension in order to achieve together, with young children, teenagers, adults, from the club and the city, a live show, to offer a moment of sharing and of wonder never before seen here. ” Sophie Foucher defends her project: “We are presenting a unique project, since the idea is to involve all young people who wish to participate in the project (in the lions, by holding the dragons’ poles, in percussion, in the audiovisual sector, in communication … we need everyone’s support… ”
Olivier SCHLAMA
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