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Adili Wuxiuer

01-0037Uyghur DawaziTraditional Sports, Games and AcrobaticsXinjiangBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Adili Wuxiuer was born into a Dawazi family and is the sixth-generation inheritor of the family art.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Uyghur ethnicity, born in 1971, a native of Yengisar County, Xinjiang. Dawazi is a high-altitude performance event of great difficulty and danger, requiring the performer to possess exceptional courage and nerve. He began his training at the age of seven. In order to innovate, develop, and transmit Dawazi, he actively explored and practiced the combination of stage acrobatics with folk Dawazi, and his distinctive style and exquisite skill have won the affection of people of all ethnic groups across the country and high praise from friends around the world. In order to carry forward this ancient art, Adili Wuxiuer has now devoted himself wholeheartedly to the training of successors in the performing art of Xinjiang Uyghur Dawazi; his disciples' technical levels have steadily improved, and they have repeatedly achieved outstanding results.

Honors & Recognition

A representative bearer of Uyghur Dawazi, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; first-class actor. Adili Wuxiuer has repeatedly broken Guinness World Records for high-wire walking and has received numerous honors. He has been named one of the Ten Outstanding Young People of Xinjiang, recognized as a member of both virtue and art by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and awarded the May Day Labor Medal, among other distinctions. The State Council presented him with a certificate for contributions to the development of China's performing arts, and he enjoys a special government allowance.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Adili Wuxiuer · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Uyghur Dawazi
Item code
Ⅵ-5
Category
Traditional Sports, Games and Acrobatics
Region
Xinjiang
Born
1971.07.01
Batch
Batch 1 (2007)

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