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Forget the typical homecoming parade featuring a drill team doing high kicks or throwing batons. This troop marches to an entirely different beat. The Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team, which has about 30 high school members, introduces the Chinese culture to the masses by waving large colorful flags at cultural festivals and events each year, all while wearing highly ornamented Cantonese opera costumes and marching in military formation.
Chow explains in the film that she came up with the idea for the unique costuming through her husband, Edward Shui “Ping” Chow, who had been a Cantonese opera singer for much of his youth. The brightly colored costumes, each around 8 pounds and adorned with 8,000 beads, are modeled after female warriors that appear in Cantonese opera performances. “In Cantonese opera, there’s always a legend of women warriors and they were always beautiful, intelligent and strong,” Ruby Chow said in 2002.
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