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Tai Chi Chuan 太极拳 — a demonstration of different forms and styles
Part of Chinese Language Week 2021 series
Tuesday 28 September 2021, 12:10pm to 12:50pm
Online — RSVP for a link to join this talk
Free
Tai Chi Chuan 太极拳: A demonstration by Keith McEwing of hand forms in different styles, a weapon form, using a combination of styles, with the fan, followed by a Qi Gong set that people will be invited to join in (Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi太極氣功十八式). The session will finish with an interview with Keith and an opportunity for people to ask him questions.
Tai Chi Chuan 太极拳 demonstration
Tai Chi Chuan 太极拳 is a Chinese martial art that developed at the end of the Ming Dynasty (early 17th Century) from a base of earlier traditional forms of martial arts.
Keith McEwing will perform Tai Chi Chuan hand forms in different styles — Chen 陳, Yang 楊 and Sun 孙 — and a weapon form, using a combination of styles, with the fan (lasting in total about 20 minutes).
He will then invite those that are willing to join in some Qi Gong movements (Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi太極氣功十八式, lasting about 15 minutes).
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About the speaker
Keith McEwing is Assistant Curator, Music for the Alexander Turnbull Library and teaches Tai Chi at the Wellington School of Tai Chi Chuan.
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Keith McEwing demonstrating Tai Chi outside the National Library. Photo by Lynette Shum.