Wooden Slipper Dance

Among the recreations and sports of the Zhuang, one of the most zestful and full of teamwork, force, power and humor is “the wooden slipper race” or “the wooden slipper dance”. In this event the three or four participants of a team line up behind one another and place their feet into separate footholds attached to the same pair of long slippers. At the appropriate signal every member of the team needs to step off in unison in order that the slipper moves smoothly forward. When good teamwork prevails, the team looks like a rapidly moving centipede with a synchronized movement of the legs. More often—and more humorously—good teamwork is hard to achieve and he whole team falls into mess, much to the amusement of the audience!

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