in News & Culture

Chinese pole dancers re-enact photos of dogs in Yulin Festival

0 Votes

The Yulin Dog and Cat Meat Festival in China has been a much controversial issue in the past weeks (read more here). Various animal protection groups have started their individual campaigns to call on China’s government to stop the inhumane festival. Other groups, meanwhile, have started getting in on the act and denounced the somewhat barbaric event.

China’s National Pole Dancing Team and the dance troupe Pole 11 took a series of photographs with the dancers in provocative poses to raise public awareness about animal rights. These images are recreations of the photos of the animals that appeared in the media. The Chinese pole dancers re-enacted the dog photos used in Yulin. The photo series appeared online just days before the annual dog meat festival in Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on June 21.

All photos courtesy of CFP.

1
A dancer acts as a dog being abandoned by its owner.
2
Two dancers pose as abandoned dogs.
3
A dancer poses tied up next to a dog.
4
A dancer pretends to be a stray dog scrounging for food beside a trash can.
5
A dancer acts as a caged dog.
6
A dancer recreates a photo of a dog captured by a dog meat vendor.
7
A dancer poses for a photo of a captured dog being dragged by a van.
8
Two dancers pretend to be dogs awaiting slaughter by a butcher.

9
A dancer recreates an image of a dog being cooked at a dog meat restaurant.

Chinapole dancersyulinyulin dog and cat meat festival

Written by KM Viray

Government employee from 8 to 5. Writer in between hours. Mom all day everyday.

After a photographer criticized Taylor Swift’s ‘hypocrisy’ over her letter to Apple, she now credits photographers

Driver in Taguig student Hit-and-Run surrenders, asks forgiveness