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Article: Beijing to stage international performing arts festival
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- March 2, 2002
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ix years ago when Chen Jixin participated for the first time in
the annual conference of the International Society of Performing Arts
(ISPA) in New York, she was surprised that the panel forum on Asia
listed no speakers from China.
As deputy general manager of China National Culture & Art Co, Ltd,
she said she realized then and there that China was still loitering
outside the world arena for performing arts.
Six years later, Chen and her colleagues are busy preparing for
the China Performing Arts Fair and 2002 ISPA International Forum,
scheduled to open on March 8.
For ISPA, the fair and the forum provide "an outstanding
opportunity for international performing arts businesses and artists ...