Tag: Petra Zezulkova
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།
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Losar performance in Prague
Losar performance
Prague, Tibet Open House
March 1st, 2025
An international team of Khaita dancers performed several dances on Losar celebration in Tibet Open House.
The dances were dedicated to valuable places in Tibet (Bodla Dro), importance of unity and collaboration (Thundril) and bringing fortune and benefits to all beings (Tashi Delek).
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
