Toss Pan Dance
Exercise with Attitude during Quarantine
甩锅舞: 疫情期间最具意见性健身方式
With the COVID-19 outbreak, many sociopolitical issues are becoming even more apparent. One of them is the dodging of responsibilities and shifting blames of government officials. It reflects the problem of our current sociopolitical mechanism and has been one of the causes of this pandemic’s widespread. The action of dodging responsibilities is called “甩锅” in Chinese idiom, which literally means “tossing a pan”.
This whole toss pan comedy has been played between central government and local government, in China, US, and many more.
To inform, criticize, and warn, I made this Toss Pan Dance.
Since we are in social distancing and self-quarantine at the moment, Toss Pan Dance is also a very good exercise. You can easily do it at home without a gym. The equipment is right in the palm of your hand!
The music is made by typing the No. 3 document. abcdefg on Mac keyboard is mapped to 1234567 on piano keyboard.
The dance quickly went viral in China and was reposted on influential blogs, with over 1 million hits in mere a day.
Huang hung, “the Oprah of China”, used this dance to explain “Toss Pan“ in her TED Talk on "how American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response”. Check it out at 10:00.
Somebody added the dance to UPenn’s Language Log dictionary to explain “Toss Pan“.
Compilation of people’s dance on the internet
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Huang hung, “the Oprah of China”, used this dance to explain “Toss Pan“ in her TED Talk on "how American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response”. Check it out at 10:00.
