DANCE OF 1000 HANDS...
Read the paragraph below FIRST before you
watch the video (& turn-on speakers)
There is an awesome dance, called the
Thousand-Hand Guanyin, which is making the rounds across the net.
Considering the tight coordination required, their accomplishment is nothing short of amazing, even if they were
not all deaf.
Yes, you read correctly. All 21 of the dancers are complete deaf-mutes. Relying only on signals from trainers at the four
corners of the stage, these extraordinary dancers deliver a
visual spectacle that is at once intricate and stirring. Its first major
international debut was in Athens
at the closing ceremonies for the 2004 Paralympics.
But it had long been in the repertoire of the Chinese Disabled People's
Performing Art Troupe and had traveled to more than 40 countries. Its
lead dancer is 29 year old Tai Lihua, who has a BA from the Hubei Fine Arts
Institute. The video was recorded in Beijing
during the Spring Festival this year.
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