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03-0950KuoziTraditional DanceQushui, TibetBatch 3 (2009)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Tibetan ethnicity, born in August 1937 in Qushui County, Tibet Autonomous Region. From childhood he took part in the hide-boat dance performances of Junba fishing village and served as the are, or lead dancer, of kuozi, and he has always treasured this local folk art. He has a thorough command of the singing and dance movements of kuozi and fuses the local farming and herding culture closely with religious culture, giving the dance movements a vigorous force and a rugged simplicity.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Kuozi, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. As the bearer of an endangered project, he has undertaken the transmission of the hide-boat dance to the best of his ability, trained a group of hide-boat dance performers and founded a hide-boat dance performance group, so that this distinctive traditional art has been effectively protected and handed on.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Zhasang · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Kuozi
Item code
Ⅲ-89
Category
Traditional Dance
Region
Qushui, Tibet
Born
1937.08
Batch
Batch 3 (2009)

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