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Benjamin Freed Speaks About Divine Performing Arts in Taipei

The last Divine Performing arts show in Taipei came to a close just a few hours ago. Before today’s performance our correspondent, Ben Hedges, caught up with Benjamin Freed, one of the Hosts of the show, at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Taipei. This is Benjamin Freed or Tang Yi, to use his Chinese name. He is one of this years hosts for the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular. [Benjamin Freed, DPA Host] “Divine Performing Arts is a performance arts company that includes a wide range of dancers and musical performers. We have 3 large scale troupes currently touring around the world and that includes two full scale orchestras, and many vocal artists and including around 120 dancers total. So we’re a performance arts troupe and our show includes traditional Chinese dances, and that includes traditional Chinese folk ethnic and classical dance.” Benjamin is co-host for the Asian leg of the tour, and here in Taiwan he presents the show entirely in Chinese. [Benjamin Freed, DPA Host] “Its always good, you know, its always something that they enjoy. Thats one of the best things about being a westerner speaking Chinese is that they are so thrilled, and we can make some jokes, because I’m a westerner we can make some great jokes. So thats the fun part for sure, because we get to do stuff that we can’t do in our script anywhere else. Because we’re all in Chinese, everyone’s in on the joke, everyone has a background and, you know, I’m speaking Chinese which people immediately draw …