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Walk like a dinosaur

By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2014-05-09 07:11

In 2012, Lightwire Theater, a light-up puppet group act, received a standing ovation for its Dinosaurs With Light Sabers performance on NBC's hit show America's Got Talent. Glowing dinosaurs roared at the crowd amid colorful dancing flowers.

Now the act is coming to China, where the group will perform a kid-friendly show, Darwin the Dinosaur, and offer workshops on their art. Lightwire Theater will perform at Tsinghua University on May 16 and 17 in Beijing and at the National Center for the Performing Arts on June 1 and 2.

"Darwin, our green dinosaur, was one of the first characters we built," says Ian Carney, one of the founders of Lightwire Theater and a former ballet dancer from New Orleans. "My wife Eleanor and I wrote the story, which is about a magical professor who builds a dinosaur and gives him a heart. In the story Darwin discovers the true meaning of love. We actually made the show without a specific audience in mind. We just made something we liked."

Walk like a dinosaur

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