From today's Weekend section of The Washington Post:
Initially built to keep invaders out, China's Great Wall has in recent years become a symbol of the once-closed nation's nascent emergence onto the world stage -- at least in the view of one Chinese choreographer, Zhang Jigang, whose eye-popping extravaganza "Forbidden Fruit Under the Great Wall" has its American debut Friday at the Kennedy Center.
Written and choreographed by Zhang, one of the directors of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, "Forbidden Fruit" features 65 Chinese folk dancers from the China Shanxi Performing Arts Academy, one of the nation's top academic arts institutions.
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