Veteran artist offers amateurs chance to shine

Cameroonian choreographer Abbe Simon gives a dance class to the students as part of the theater training program. Provided to China Daily It's not every day that Yu Jinhao, a 43-year-old corporate leader who lives and works in Tianjin, finds himself standing in front of a crowd of strangers, crouching low, arms dangling by his side, and hopping across a stage while scratching his head and emitting monkey grunts. Before the laughter subsides, he has transitioned again, this time into a crocodile lying flat on the ground and snapping imaginary jaws with exaggerated ferocity. Yu was taking part in the first class of a theater training program created by singer-songwriter Xiao Ke.