| Tibet Enigma
--Large Tibetan Original Song and Dance Show by Liping Yang
Date & Time: 7:30pm 26-30 November 2008
Venue : Poly Theatre
Price( RMB ): 180,280,380,480,680,880,980,1280(VIP)
Notes : 2:30 29 November (underdetermined)
2:30 30 November (underdetermined)
Newest works of Liping Yang, the most popular Chinese ethical terpsichorean.
Coryphaeus by Rongzhong Erjia, the legendary Tibetan singer
The ethical music banquet after Olympic 2008.
Soul-shocking dance from the snowy altiplano.
The 80 shows of the first round are all house full. After successively improved by Liping Yang, Tibet Enigma will shock Beijing audience in Poly Theater.
The Folk Artists
“The Tibetan people are born to be the master of dance and singing, I can’t learn all their unique skills,” said Yang. Therefore, she invented some Tibetan men and women to take part in this show. It is the first time for all these folk performers to walk out their hometown and daily lives. They will be a great surprise to the audience in the choreography by Yang.
Tibet Enigma debuted in 2008 as an audial and visional banquet. Nonprofessional Tibetan performers will bring local color and amorous feeling of the Tibet. Meanwhile, the Tibetan folk music instruments and vocality like Tibetan guitar and Dafahao (a big-size music instrument used in a Buddhist mass) will be firstly used on the stage. Three thousand Tibetan local costume, accessories and treasures will be exhibited in the show. It took five years for the choreographer to create and perfect the show.
It is specially worthy of mentioned that the Tibetan farmers will playing the Tibetan guitar, singing the folk song and dancing the tap dance at the same time. It is the unique performance style of Tibetan people.
The story
Tibetan Enigma is a painstaking works of Liping Yang and Rongzhong Erjia. It is an epic showing different styles of pure Tibetan colorful music and dance in different regions.
The story of Tibetan Enigma is about an old Tibetan woman’s experience along her pilgrim journey. Tibetan lives, culture, customs, and religion are all exhibited to the audience by the song, dance and music instruments.
Audience will see Liping Yang’s totally new profile and dance as well as Rongzhong Jiaer’s romantic voices.
It is a collection of Tibetan sing and dance, a fashion show of ethnic costumes, and music festival with one-hundred folk Tibetan artists.
The production has been prepared by Liping Yang for five years. She will perform a fairy who leading the old woman to the pilgrim road.
Scenes
Scene I
Tibetan Guitar and Long-leave Dance
Tibetan Guitar by all actors
Long-leave Dance by all actors and actress
Leading Singer: Baimalaji Cairangnanjie
Scene II
Trash Highland Barley and Lover antistrophe
Leading Dancer: Naimaer Gudehamu
Leading Singer: Rongzhong Erjiar
Yak Dance lead by Dadanzeng
Scene III: Trash Aga, Shower Festival, Costume Race Festival
Leading Singer: Cairangnanjie Yinzhoucao
Notes
Trash Aga: A strange dance from the saint labor of repairing Potala Palace
Shower Festival: It is an annual festival in Lunar Tibet Year when Tibetan women will have a shower in saint lake.
Costume Race Festival: It is a festival when the Tibetan youth will compete with their costumes and accessories. On the festival, these young boys and girls will have their most luxuriant gaudery on. For Tibetan people, the gaudery is the symbol of richness. The most expensive assets are ceremonious costumes and accessories.
Scene IV Nirvana Dream
Programs
1 Pilgrim
2 Tibetan Guitar
3. Long-leave Dance
4 Trash Highland Barley
5. Lotus Drolma (Solo by Liping Yang)
6 Yak Dance
7. Song: Pilgrim, King Gear (Sing by Rongzhong Erjia)
8 Trash Age
9 Costume Race ( Lead by Liping Yang)
10 Nirvana (Drolma by Liping Yang )
Casting
Art Director/ General Choreographer/Leading Actress: Liping Yang
Producer/ General Executive/Leading Actor: Rongzhong Erjia
Choreography/Leading Actress: Sun Flower
Stage Design: Jiangtao Luo
Music Director/ Music Executive: Xiao Pang
Liping Yang:
General Director/ Art Director/ Famous Choreography/ Dance Artist/
Born in Dali, Yunnan Province/ Bai Ethnic Group
Granted the First Prize by Yunnan Province Art Performance for Cocktail Princess
Won Golden Prize of 20th China Ethnic Dance Classic Works with the solo dance and creation of Cocktail Soul
In 1998, granted Special Grand Prix of the Jury on Canadian Montreal Film Festival with direction and playwright of Sunbird
Won Golden Prize, Best Leading Actress, Best Playwright, Best Costume Design and the Excellent Performance in the 4th China Dance Lotus Prize for Yunnan Impression
Rongzhong Erjia
General Executive/ Producer/ Tibtan Singer
1994, act as singer and group leader of Jiuzhaigou Ethnic Art Group
2000, won the Most Popular Singer in the 9th National Youth Singer TV Awards
2001, set up Rongzhong Erjia Art Center in Jiuzhaigou
2004, granted Special Achievement Prize by Guangdong Music Academy for 30-Year Anniversary Guangdong Pop Music
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