Beijing clubbing and Beijing on qing tao beer
Saturday night I went clubbing in Beijing. one adjective to describe it: civil.
I arrived early, at 11 pm along with a gigling pair of chinese friends. Up the steps, through columns of trees and straight to the entrance. No long wait for a doorman to notice you and dismissively hail you forward (typical experience in New York clubs). It was tickets: 5 dollars. Stamp on the hand and “welcome” in and down onto the dance floor. Then two and a half hours of dancing to straight hip hop music, the beyonce-sean paul-nelly kind that I feel guilty downloading but comfortable dancing on. On the dance floor, it’s all “hello, how are you?” yelled in your ear over the deafening base, “let’s dance together”. Mind you, the only ones that asked me this were girls, guys don t even bother dancing with girls they don’t know (yet again, trully on the other side of the world from New York)
The day after, that’s yesterday evening, I had another dance experience, although I didn’t exactly participate in it. Out late in the tepid evening, on the side of the park sipping qing tao beer. I suddenly heard music (cheesy old song instrumentals) coming from inside the park. I strolled into the vegetation and came upon a square with tens of old chinese people ballroom dancing. Eventhough some of them didn’t know what they were doing, it was a delightful scene and I felt like a forest wanderer who chanced upon a party of elves. Only the far off street lights illuminated the twirling figures and their blurred moving shadows stretched accross the golden pavement.
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hey, can i know the full address of the clubbing place above. I can’t wait to dance. Ha…
cindy
Hi Ventura!!! just the shortest way.
Sorry to introduce myself in this way, the first and last time i saw you it was in the Mix club in beijing, it was a flash, you just left and i didnt know about you anymore. you said you are journaliste, so i guessed that you have some articles online, i checked and yeap… there we go… very interesting, it was nice to talk for 3 min, hope to read from you from my mail box… salut, china(Dalian) September 2 Oscky
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can someone inform me of where this place is located in beijing?
ryan
hey,where are you from??can u email me please,thx