In addition to the learning points, this is REALLY BEAUTIFUL!!!
Read the paragraphs below FIRST before you watch the video website.
And after you see it, consider
- the discipline it took to learn (and we think we can't learn to speak with excellence!?!)
- and the impact of Creating an Experience - albeit five minutes.
This 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 profoundly deaf. 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 last year 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 celebrations this year.
Enjoy 5 minutes out of your day, and be inspired: