Sim Chi Yin Some dancers, male and female, wait on the sidelines of the dance floor for partners to ask them to dance. While some people come with regular dance partners, others come seeking them and spend the
(...) morning dancing with different people. | Elderly dancers get their moves on at the Bao Zhu Dancehall in Chongqing city which opens its doors daily at 8:30am, way before any of the other shops in this shopping mall complex are open. Each person pays 3 yuan per entry or buy 50 yuan a month membership cards. Dancers from their 50s to 90 years old take to the dance floor from 8:30am till 11am daily, doing a mix of ballroom dancing, Rumba, Latin dancing, waltz and modern dance. The southwestern Chinese city at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in southwestern China has an active dance hall culture. Most dance halls there have three sessions every day, with elderly dominating the morning sessions which run from 8:30am. The afternoon sessions attracts the middle-aged and the evening ones draw a younger crowd. Elderly dancers typically see dancing as a good form of exercise as well as a form of maintaining social interaction in their old age. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos