印度逾萬人同跳竹竿舞刷新世界紀錄
A troupe of 10,780 tribal villagers in India's northeast set a record Friday for the largest dance ensemble in the world with a carefully choreographed routine to welcome in the summer.
The dancers spread out over three kilometres (around two miles) to perform an eight-minute jig with bamboo sticks, setting a record at the expense of the previous holders -- a 7,700-strong group in Cebu, in the Philippines.
"A new Guinness world record was created with 10,780 dancers performing the bamboo dance for eight minutes in perfect rhythm," a representative of the Guinness Book of World Records, Lucia Sinigagliesi, said after the event.
Sinigagliesi handed over a certificate to the arts and culture minister of the state of Mizoram, in India's far east, which borders Myanmar, where the dance took place to the sound of bamboo sticks being knocked together.
"We are delighted to create history," the minister, P.C. Zoramsangliana, told reporters in the capital, Aizawl, where the troupe in traditional tribal dress assembled at a military ground.
The bamboo dance, locally known as the Cheraw dance, is the harbinger of the Chapchar Kut festival of the Mizos tribal group, which marks the end of winter and advent of summer.
印度東北部某部落上週五創造了一項新的集體竹竿舞世界紀錄，10780名村民隨着精心設計的舞蹈動作起舞，歡慶夏季的到來。
舞蹈隊伍綿延三公里（約兩英里），他們同時跳了八分鐘的竹竿舞，打破了之前由菲律賓宿霧市保持的7700人一同起舞的紀錄。
《吉尼斯世界紀錄大全》的代表露西婭•辛尼加格列西在事後說：“10780名舞者跳了八分鐘節奏完美的竹竿舞，一項新的吉尼斯世界紀錄誕生了。”
辛尼加格列西向米佐拉姆邦省的藝術與文化部長出具了一份證明。該省位於印度東部邊境，與緬甸接壤，此次用竹竿敲打伴奏的竹竿舞就是在這裏舉行的。
P.C. Zoramsangliana部長在米佐拉姆邦首府艾藻爾接受記者採訪時說：“我們很高興能創造歷史。”參加者身着傳統的部落服飾，聚集在一處軍事基地起舞。
竹竿舞在當地被稱爲“挈勞舞”，常在米佐部落的查普查爾庫特節（又名春日節）之際表演，象徵着冬季的結束和夏季的到來。
Vocabulary:
troupe：a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, esp. one that travels about.（演員、歌手等的表演團）
ensemble：a group of musicians, singers, dancers, or actors who perform together（全體演出者）
choreograph：to provide the choreography for（設計舞蹈動作）
jig：a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter（吉格舞，快步舞）
harbinger：to signal the approach of; presage（先兆，預兆）
