Programs
1.
Tibetan Opera: Zhaxi Shoipa 
Tibetan opera is an art form unique to the Tibetan race. It is also an important
member of the Chinese opera and ballad family. Zhaxi Shoipa, a Tibetan opera item
that adopts white facial masks, has its roots stricken in the Yarlung River Valley
in Shannan, the cradle of the Tibetan race. With a history of about 1,000 years,
it is a combination of singing, speaking and dancing. It shows auspiciousness
and happiness.
2. Dance: Xuan
Xuan means dancing in Tibetan. It is a
kind of dancing performed, to the accompaniment of singing, exclusively by girls
and women in Burang and Zada Counties in Ngari (called Zhangzhung in ancient times)
some 3,000 years ago. Traditionally, it was performed only during wedding ceremonies
and the Tibetan New Year's Day celebrations.
3. Religious Dance: Shia Na
Shia Na refers to black hat dancing performed as a segment of Chammo, a massive
religious dance performed during religious festivals and celebrations. Dancers
are all monks wearing large black hats and long robes with wide sleeves. They
dance to the accompaniment of solemn drum and cymbals beating and blowing of religious
horns, featuring bold and unconstrained movements that display a mysterious kind
of force powerful enough to conquer everything in the world sign of power and
perfection of Buddhism.
4. Male Solo by Lhakar: On the Other Side of the
Mountain, and Affluent Homeland
5.
Dance: Drum Dance of Eastern Tibet
This dance performance features the cream
of folk dances much favored in Mangkang, Zugong and Rewoqe of Qamdo Prefecture.
It is blended with the charm of Reba dance, and is performed to the accompaniment
of found kinds of drum beatings to show the warm, industrious and straightforward
nature of the Kamba people.
6. Singing With Actions: Visiting the New City
A young Tibetan girl pays a visit to Lhasa together with her father and grandfather.
Elated by all the changes that have taken place to the city mushrooming buildings
and neat and spacious Potala Palace Square. They sing about what they have seen.
7.
Langma: Zhala Shipa
Langma is a special kind of performing art of the Tibetan
folk music popular with the Lhasa area. Sweat music, pleasant songs and graceful
dance movements combines to show desire for a bright future.
8. Male Dance:
Merry Stamping Dance
Stamping dance is called Duishie in Tibetan. It is a kind of folk dance performed
when people meet to celebrate festivals or bumper harvest. The dance features
feet stampings in a merry and warm way to show how the Tibetans yearn for sweet
lives.
9. Duoding Solo: Happy Caravan
Duoding refers to Chime Stone
the Tibetans developed some 1,000 years earlier out of a special kind of stone.
Such musical stone was adopted first by monasteries for summoning lamas to meetings
and religious activities such as the reciting of sutras. Happy Caravan shows how
the members of the Caravan overcome hardships encountered during travels.
10.
Dance: Bracelet Bells
This refers to Bracelet Dance performed by females in
Gyilong of Xigaze in Tibet. Metallic bracelets worn by the dancers give beautiful
sounds during dancing, showing what the Tibetan women seek and how they love nature,
life and things beautiful.
11. Singing With Actions: Heavily Loaded
New, spacious houses, heavy pulu woolen robes, and wallets stocked with cashes
life gets so better today that the Tibetans dance happily and sing merrily.
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12.
Female Solo by Pelma Kyi: Daughters of the Same Mother, and Auspicious New Year
13.
Dance: Happy Herders
Golden autumn in August sees "fire-like" grasslands
in Tibet, where herders gather from afar. Donned in their holiday's best, they
take part in horse race, shooting contest, and singing and dancing parties to
show their romantic and happy mood.
14. Female Solo by Kelsang Choedren:
Lhasa in My Heart, and Our Tibet
15. Traditional Tibetan Costumes and Ornaments
Show: Demeanor of the Snowland