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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

 
 
 

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