Happy Chinese New Year – Folk Song and Dance Ensemble of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Founded in 1958, the Folk Song and Dance Ensemble of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is a professional art troupe with more than 200 artists and staff members, specialized in various performances including singing, dancing, folk music, and folk drama.
Slovenia hosted two performances:
Maribor: Sunday, February 17th, 2013 at 18:00, Amphitheatre II. gymnasium Maribor
Ljubljana: Monday, February 18th, 2013 at 19:00 pm, Stage under the stars, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (LGL Ljubljana)
Tickets were available at the LGL Ljubljana box office.
About the Ensamble of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture:
For five decades, the Ensemble have created and choreographed more than 1,000 programs, the most popular among them including “Hometown of King Gesar, a Beloved Son of the Snowy Plateau”, “Dream Lake”, “The Hometown of Kangding Love Song”, “Can’t help Singing”, “Road to the Happy Life”, “The Wind on Tibetan Plateau”, “The Attraction of Xianzi Dance”, “Soul of Guozhuang Dance”, “Daughters of One Mother”, “The Girl Named Zhuo Ma” and “Dream Lover”. As crystals of Tibetan folk culture, these performances showcase the joyful life of people living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The Ganzi Folk Song and Dance Ensemble boasts a production team exclusively engaged in Tibetan folk music and dance, a group of well-known artists, lyric writers, music composers in Tibetan areas and young, talented performers graduated from established dance school.
The Ensemble has presented more than 500 performances in total, including 150 ones at national level and over 300 in more than 50 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and Africa, which received wide acclamation and great success. Since its establishment, the Ensemble have won 133 vocal and 365 dance awards, among which “The Hometown of the Kangding Love Song” was awarded the World Peace Prize, its highest honor, on the 1st “World Cultural Openness and Development Conference” held in South Korea.
With its unique characteristics, the Ensemble will continue to contribute to the development and prosperity of Tibetan culture and art. Moreover, it will commit itself to the promotion of Chinese culture and its fascinating folk arts around the world.
For more information about the Ensamble and the program, please click here.
The organizers of the performance were the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China and the Confucius Institute at the Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana.
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