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‘Vulgar’ and ‘pornographic’ dance to celebrate Tsinghua University anniversary lambasted online
- The dance featured nine female students wearing short dresses covered in tassels
- Other people defended the women, saying the online attacks were unnecessary
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A short video clip of nine women dancing during the anniversary celebration of a prestigious Chinese university over the weekend was panned for being “pornographic” and “vulgar”.
The short video features the women dancing while wearing golden dresses decorated with tassels during the 110th anniversary celebration at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China’s top schools.
The women danced for about two minutes in front of the school’s iconic Grand Auditorium on Saturday while a marching band played music in the background.
The video soon became a topic of discussion in China over the weekend.
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Jenny Lai, a music professor at a university in Guangzhou, said the Tsinghua students had their right to dance, but it was “humiliating” for the school to approve the dance to be staged in public.
“It shows that Tsinghua University has poor aesthetic sense,” Lai told the South China Morning Post. “It’s OK that you dance non-professionally. But you cannot choose those types of dresses and make-up.”
“Even dancers at my son’s primary school’s gala shows are better packaged than these Tsinghua girls,” she said.
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