Tag: Martina Krejčová
Exploring Khaita Workshops:
Khaita in daily life
Online
May 4th, 2025
3. Khaita in daily life
April 6th 2025
Nadiia Gnatenko, Martina Krejčová & Monika Marcik
During the workshop teachers shared their experience in various Khaita applications:
- Khaita as art therapy
- Khaita at schools (for pupils and teachers)
- Khaita for team-building
- Khaita for coaches
- Khaita for personal development
- Social projects
- Khaita on chair
Khaita Practice Meeting in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
April 12—13, 2025
In Tibet Open House in Prague Khaita teachers and practitioners gathered to remember and practice together several complex Khaita dances:
Intensive dancing was complemented by joyful time together (photos below):
“Today we have gathered,we had the good fortune to gather.
Friends, drink chang!
With the chang we are drinking long life.”
– from Ngatso Dering Dzomsong.
M 2.4.04 Sergyi Metok / གསེར་གྱི་མེ་ཏོག / Golden Flower
by Lhalung Tso / ཧོར་གཙང་ལྷ་ལུང་མཚོ།
M 2.3.01 Zhijey Lhandzom / གཞིས་བྱེས་ལྷན་འཛོམས། / Reunion of Those Living in Tibet and Abroad by Lhakar Dolma / ལྷ་དཀར་སྒྲོལ་མ།
M 2.4.09 Gangjong Bumo / གངས་ལྗོངས་བུ་མོ། / A Girl from the Land of Snow
by Yeshe Paltso / ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔལ་མཚོ།
M 3.3.08 Thundril Bodkul / མཐུན་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་འབོད་བསྐུལ། / Appeal for Unity
by Namgyal Choetso / རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ཆོས་མཚོ།
Khaita on Tibet Art Live
Prague, Tibet Open House
November 16th, 2024
On 16th November we were invited to Tibet Open House to dance at the Tibetan artistic afternoon, organized by Czechs Support Tibet and USA embassy.
This time we felt very responsible, moved and shaken, — tells Kateřina Drajsajtlová, one of Khaita dancers.
We were asked to open and perform in between the unique performances of singer Sonam Dolma, coming originally from nomadic culture in Amdo, poet and activist Tenzin Tsundue, who presented there the new Czech translation of his poetry book Kora and singer and musician Loten Namling, whose alternative rock band Porok Karpo arranged Tibetan songs, some of them are also in collections chosen by our dear Master (MfT 2.05 Yi Re Kyo, M 2.3.09 Tashi Jatson).
Beautiful video report provided by Czechs Support Tibet
We were asked to prepare one of the songs and dance together while Loten was singing. We have chosen the song Tashi Jatson. Clotilde Hubert with Petra Zezulkova adjust the original choreography from Tsering Dolker and Topgyal Gontse. Since the parts of steps were strictly connected to the singing parts, in the case there would be added some repetition more or less, we would be able to react to it and this way we were prepared for different musical arrangement.
That was the first experience of live dancing with a singer! We had many question marks. How we will manage on live with the singer himself? Will there be any chance to try it before the performance? We had only few minutes before the event started.
Once Loten entered in Tibet Open House, his energy immediately shined through the whole room. He was very friendly and simply shown us, what and how to do, we practiced few times together.
I must say it was the most joyful performance I ever participated, because dancing directly with the singer on the stage is vivid and really magical experience! We all enjoyed that very much.
When Loten Namling called us again on Monday 18th November and asked us to come and dance with him at the stage of Futurum Music Bar, where he had the concert with famous Czech singer Tomas Klus on occasion of anniversary of velvet revolution, we could not refuse and it filled our hearts with great joy! Part of our group, who lives in Prague went and danced there with him again.
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The song-offering to Dalai Lama, whish also was sung by Loten Namling in movie “Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache” by Khyentse Norbu.
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
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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
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:
Supervision and exam of Khaita Educational Program in Dzamlingar
April 17–19, 2024
Photos by Yulia Petrova, Lubomir Mishna, Lourdes, Monika Marcik, Gisela Martinez, Sharina Techer, Carlos Garcia
Photos from the exam
The supervision and exam for the students of the first cycle of Khaita Educational Program took place on April 17–19 in Dzamling Gar, Tenerife.
Examinees explained simple and complex dances, shared their understanding of Khaita principles, knowledge of its history, goals and other aspects, and explained the basic Khaita movements.
The final task was to study and perform together a dance with complex choreography, Tashi Thogang Nyiwod (བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཐོ་སྒང་ཉི་འོད།, Auspicious Highland Sunshine), which was especially challenging due to the students living in different countries. We performed the dance on the graduation ceremony.
Newly graduated instructors Eva Leick and Martina Krejčová share sharing their impressions and a story of intensive preparation and successful passing of the exam in The Mirror article.
Graduation ceremony: video and photos (below)
Congratulations to the new instructors:
- Issa Cox (Peru)
- Janina Parejo (Spain)
- Anna Jiresch (Austria)
- Alessandra Policreti (Spain)
- Eva Leick (Austria)
- Nadiia Gnatenko (Hungary, Ukraine)
- Clotilde Hubert (France)
- Katerina Drajsajtlova (Czech Republic)
- Martina Krejcova (Czech Republic)
- Sharina Techer (France)
Having a great time together while preparing to the exam and after it.
After exam we went to Khaita picnic on Teide, and tried to shoot the video for to complex dances — Jidkai Trinsang and Choelka Sum. Though the weather was not favourable, we enjoyed dancing, talking, delicious food and great company.
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Losar 2024
Losar 2024
Happy New Year of the Wood Dragon!
Khaita Wood Dragon, watercolour by Cindy Faulkner
The Tibetan dragon (or Druk) is a symbol of power and of hidden, intangible knowledge. Being invisible, he manifests himself through sound and energy. The dragon thunders in the sky with the sound of compassion that awakens us from delusion and increases what we can understand through hearing. Thus, it is said that dragons bring forth our awareness towards the things that we cannot see.
“When spring begins, one hears thunderstorms. Live on! When this happens, rain falls, and rain is very important for nature, for maturing and for life. And rainbows, lights, and colours appear everywhere. … thunder, rain, and rainbows appear, which are all typical manifestations of the dragon.”
— from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s commentary to the song Ema Lha Gyallo
Losar is a great time for dancing and singing to bring fortune and peace to the new year. Below are videos and photos from this year Losar performances and celebrations.
Venice Dragon
Khaita performance in Prague Tibetan House
Losar celebration in France
Khaita on Street Festival in Prague
Presentation and Workshop
September 16, 2023
On September 16 we enjoyed an opportunity to participate in a small Khaita show and workshop with Petra Zezulková on the festival on Uralská street in Prague.
The event was a part of the festival Zažít Město Jinak – or ‘Different City Experience’ – which celebrates different neighbourhoods of cities and their unique inhabitants and traditions, and happens every September bringing the different angles of each city to its participants. It was held by local businesses and residents of Uralská street to strengthen neighborhood relations, enjoy a nice day together with a good drink or coffee accompanied by cultural program for adults and kids.
