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Dancing on beneficent auction in Prague

Khaita on beneficent auction

Prague, Tibet Open House
November 5th, 2024

We had a wonderful opportunity to participate in beneficent auction, organized at the occasion of 20th anniversary of MOST ProTibet, a charity association, supporting of Tibetan people and culture, including education of children, improving life conditions of elderly seniors, nomads and monks in exile.

Most of the precious objects proposed for the auction where donated by Ladakh families, and the profit went to support the hundred of Tibetan children living in Ladakh.

During the event we performed 3 dances to cheer up public.

After the auction we closed the event with small workshop, when we danced together simple kordros with participants.

We were very happy to become a part of this joyful and successful event.

Kateřina Drajsajtlová, Clotilde Hubert

Photos by Lukáš Masner 

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Khaita Practice Meeting in Venice, October 26–27

Khaita Practice Meeting at Gyamtsholing, Venice

Gyamtsholing, Venice
October 26–27, 2024

Taste of a rich Khaita weekend in Venice: a warm and joyful gathering of new and senior teachers and other practitioners who love the Joyful Dances.

We reviewed some slightly more complex but beautiful dances that we worked on a lot in the past with Rinpoche. The Master’s presence and light accompanied us during the weekend, like a warm and bright caress on our hearts.

The meeting was interspersed with enjoyable moments strolling around the city, in pizzerias and local ‘bacari,’ accompanied by our native guides.

Adriana Dal Borgo for The Mirror

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Khaita course in Vienna, September 13-15

Practice Weekend

Vienna
July 26th – 28th

Dear Khaita enthusiasts and fellow instructors, We want to warmly invite you to our 2. Khaita practice weekend in Vienna (Samdrubling) from 26th – 28th July, Friday – Sunday. Our first weekend of this format took place in February and it was a success! We would like to propose to use these days to dedicate to our practice, learn something new, meet other Khaita enthusiasts and enjoy together! Time schedule:26th, Friday from 18:00: Arrival for people travelling and sleeping in the Ling / optional Khaita practice / dinner27th, Saturday: full day of Khaita practice including Khaita Forever28th, Sunday: Khaita practice in the morning and departure around 13:00   There is an open agenda: suggestions and leading by other instructors are very welcome! We propose that we dedicate Sunday morning to shooting one of our Khaita dance demonstration videos that we don’t have yet (to be decided together).

Sleeping in Samdrubling is possible for a contribution of 15€ / night. The Gakyil must be informed about your stay in advance. If you are planning on coming to this Khaita practice weekend, please let us know as soon as possible and feel free to write us any wishes for dances / songs / explanations that you might have. And invite your friends! Contacts: evaleick@hotmail.com or +436649240499 (Eva Leick)

Location: Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 74, 1160 Vienna

Contribution: free donation

Looking forward to you all!

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Khaita at the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, Oxford

Khaita at the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, Oxford

Wolfson College, Oxford
September 2–4th, 2024

In the begining of September Khaita Joyful Dances were presented on The International Seminar of Young Tibetologists at Wolfson College, Oxford. On the seminar an academic talk on Dzamlingar Song and Dance was given by Eva Leick. The talk was started with demonstration of the dance by our dancers.

The evening program of the conference included Khaita performance, done by Khaita dancers together with Tibetan dancer Tenzin from London. The performance was followed by 3-hour Gorshey, Tibetan circle dances, danced together by Tibetans and Khaita dancers.

The seminar was followed by art exhibition with Drugu Chögyal Rinpoche’s paintings on the Bardo. An introductory speech on Khaita given there by Lena Dumcheva was translated on Tibetan, and also materials and books for further study were provided to listeners.

Outside the exhibition there were also Khaita performance, followed by dancing several Khaita dances together with audience.

Read the full story in The Mirror: Shang Shung UK and Khaita at Oxford University

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Khaita weekend in Phendeling, August 23-25

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Practice weekend in Vienna, July 26-28

Practice Weekend

Vienna
July 26th - 28th
On July 26th-27th in Samdrubling took place the 2nd Khaita practice weekend led by Eva Leick and Anna Jiresch.
 
Participants repeated Kawa Bap, learnt on the 1st practice weekend, learnt the dance Kelsang Yardro Lak (Good Fortune Increases) and shot a learning video to it, prepared and led Khaita Forever practice.
 
It was joyful and beautiful time spent together in learning, dancing, exchanging ideas and just relaxing. Thank you so much to all participants!
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Dzamling Gar song and dance, in Merigar West, July 11-13

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5th Course of Khaita Educational Program in Merigar West, July 8-14

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A course on Lhagkar in HH Dalai Lama’s birthday in Budapest

Khaita course in Budapest

July 6th-7th

with Nadiia Gnatenko

The course of the Khaita Joyful Dances which took place on July 6-7 in Buddhist College of Budapest was dedicated to the birthday of His Holiness Dalai Lama.

We learnt a beautiful special dance connected to HH birthday,  Lhagkar  ལྷག་སྐར།  A Special Date.  
Also we talked about the principles of Khaita Joyful Dances and how to apply them on practice, learnt some other simple dances, and just enjoyed dancing together.

Thank you so much to all participants!

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Children performance in senior house in Czech Republic

Children performance in senior house

Planá nad Lužnicí (Czech Republic)

June 18th, 2024

On June 18th a group of girls from Planá nad Lužnicí primary school performed several Khaita dances for elderly in Planá nad Lužnicí senior house.

The performance was prepared by Martina Krejčová:

“We danced mostly dances learnt by girls last year. One dance, Meypo Dranlu, was new for us. And most of the girls danced last year, one just short time and one girl is completely new to Khaita.

In the beginning I showed people the infinite knot and talked about symbol of Khaita and gave a few symbols to them so they could follow the line with their finger. I think they were very happy and enjoyed it.

The last dance, Tashi Dangpo, we danced with collaboration with the audience. Passing  the khatags to each other was a great experience for all of us. It was really touching.

Also the lady who is in charge of the Senior House told me that she was really touched. And me too.

We received presents from the Senior House – a paper notebook for drawing, a pencil and socks with logo of the town Planá nad Lužnicí. When we came back to our school one girl started immediatelly drawing a picture for seniors – a beautiful rose, which was delivered to them next day.

Names of the girls are Dana Shten (her parents are  from Ukraine), Lilien Habichová, Barbora Kostrůnková, Eliška Válková and Barbora Trachtová.

The girls are 12 years old.

We are invited for Christmas because they have every year some performances so we will become one of them.”

 

 

The performed dances with links to learning materials are below: