Flag-aerobics perform on SISU annual sports meeting

wo hundred and fifty-six students performed aerobics with flags at the opening ceremony of the annual sports meeting of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) held on its Songjiang campus on November 4th, which drew hundreds of audiences.

The flag-aerobics with Chinese characteristics, also one activity memorizing the 70th anniversary of the world’s anti-fascist war, consists of some second- and third-year students from SISU’s each school who had trained for performing twice a week since September this year.

“Students trained hard to perform well on show day,” the perform’s instructor Li Lingshu said.

“Becoming one member of the performance gives me a sense of accomplishment regarding its meaning, though the training is very hardtough, this meaningful performance gives me a sense of accomplishment,” Li Meihui, one participator SISU’s  School of Journalism and Communication, said.

 “The performers were wearing red- flag styled clothes, which show the traditional Chinese art in modern life,” Pan Qianfeng, a freshman from SISU’s School of European and Latin American Studies, said.

The performance was enthusiastically applauded.

“Performers work well together, with team shapes changing always. The performance is creative,” Huang Junya, a second-year student from SISU’s School of Asian and African Studies, said.