Dancing Without Sound, Performing Without Sight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2018
- Founded in 1987, the China Disabled People’s Performing Arts Troupe enact some of the most enchanting and intricately choreographed dances, plays and operas you will ever experience. Without hearing, dancers use sound vibrations to interpret the beat; without sight, musicians use breathing patterns to keep pace. Together, they perform the “Thousand-hand Bodhisattva,” one of the most challenging pieces for the troupe to learn. Today, they’ve taken their talents around the world, performing in over 100 countries.
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Im glad they didnt narrate over their sign language, it kind of gives them their own voice even through the silence
Fawn Frauscht I appreciated that too.
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But now blind or people with bad sight have no clue what she's saying.
loved it
This falls into a common problem though of not actually showing the sign. In a lot of productions using sign, the camera cuts off the hands and you can't see what they are saying. In this one specifically, they cut to different images and use subtitles. And as someone else said, it doesn't allow blind people to understand what is being said.
Meanwhile our group project isn't even progressing because non of us wants to cooperate to each other
I relate with this comment on a spiritual level...
This is mood for this semester
I relate to this too
None*
True fact
They use the vibrations in the earth to learn the dance?
*TOPH HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*
Toph: Finally , A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
*Toph: YOU DARE OPPOSE ME MORTAL?!?!?!*
Yas!
Who knew Twinkle Toes could dance?
Haha imagine TOPH DANCING I-
Blind Band Member:
*breathes*
Other Members:
“Ah I see”
*music intensifies*
Wait... How they seeing?? If they blind...?? 🤨🤔🤔🤨
@@karenwilliams7892 sense
Karen Williams only one is blind
Weow
basically, yeah
I would be that one person who sticks out their arm at the wrong time
@Jada Isaacs g8 reply
Emily Liu 😂
Ow, that’s me. Except I stick out my arms and T-pose
Same
🤣
*"They can feel the vibrations through their feet"* Toph is that you?
Luqqy gaming AVATAR GAANG
Argh I love youuu
Toph!
Lol I love that show
TOPH OMGGGGG
For a while I was reading the subtitles but then I slowly realised that I’m Chinese. I’m capable of speaking Chinese. What am I doing-
Miah Cheung omg same!
Awww cute!
That is so cute
EXACTLY.
That. Is a mood and honestly, I did the same
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
@Uraraka Ochako Thanks
@Uraraka Ochako yo👉
@Uraraka Ochako 👐👏
@Uraraka Ochako it's from a song
@@joeyy88 Yeah. The sound of Silence
The first thing my music teacher taught me when I started my instrument is to play without sight. "when you lose one sense, you gain another" he said.
When you close your eyes a sense get stronger.
Wow what a wise word from ur teacher
that is why meditation is done eyes shut. you open your mind by shutting down your eye.
Same, I learned ukelele with my eyes closed, now I can really connect with the music. It's so cool!
@tracy Star thank you for your contribution, i guess
*”through each other’s breathing patterns”* what the hell, I would be so focused on how I’m playing let alone everyone else’s *breathing patterns, mad respect man* 🤯🤯
Violinist and accompanist frequently use breathing signals for transitions. Although the people in this video need to pay attention through out to keep in sync, not just during transitions.
@@neurofiedyamato8763 i dont and i play violin.
LaBecca Oof different people, different techniques. but i can guarantee that mist musicians focus on breathing rhythm
Namjoon so cuteeee
Emily House armyyy
Dancers: Use vibrations to keep in time
*Toph Beifong has entered the chat.*
Copied
@@hinatashoyo7252 wdym?
@@hinatashoyo7252 someone might’ve just posted the same comment by coincidence
This is incredible. Sad to think that the blind cannot see the dancers and the deaf cannot hear the musicians, yet they work beautifully together.
And there's me, can hear, talk, see, walk. But
*Can't even do pull ups..*
Not me
@@skyfallunoPretzel ok.. good for u...
What does talking,hearing,walking have to do with strength?
Cause ur shit..
So change your life..
Do 100 push up, 100 sit up, 100 squat and run 10km everyday..
Eat only bananas at breakfast and do not use air conditioner
This makes me want to do something with my nonexistent life
Luchi_33 3
Same.
Same man
lol hey. you guys have time to figure that out first ❤
I feel u
Look on the bright side! You learned how to play hot cross buns on the recorder in 4th or 5th grade!
Man: you would think this performance requires all five senses.
Me: how tf would you perform this with taste
There's really good joke potential but I'm not sure how to spin it...
t a s t e the music
Taste your sweat while practicing
My father was deaf and was an amazing dancer. Not professionally, but he could tear it up! He loved music, he could feel it through his feet. Thank you for letting us see this video, it meant a lot to me.
If anyone is wondering, this dance is based on the Chinese goddess of compassion "Guanyin". According to folk tale, when she was a mortal, she used to be a princess, her father got a severe illness but she managed to save him by sacrificing her own hands and eyes.
&The Buddha's heart was deeply moved by the extreme love she had for her father that he gifted her thousands of eyes and thousands of hands to help all living beings that are suffering in the world.
spread Peace that’s beautiful
thats amazing i literally am tearing up for some reason... really heartwarming
Hey
Buddha seems like a nice man
This is so amazing.
See no evil, hear no evil.
That’s why they’re so amazing
As a Chinese, there is something I need to complain about...
*THIS IS SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL*
奕星 same and yeah ;’)
YES SAME
Deaf and mute should not be a limit! This is beautiful.
Agreed!
I heard that Chinese people don't have youtube
Huh..
I mean yeah but..... The dancing is awesome af
INDIGO T.V. It is indeed
S o s i g
PERIODT!!!’
That sounds like a passive insult, I know you're well meaning, but damn.
And then there’s me, perfectly healthy, perfectly normal....
but can’t do jack shit
Trover19 we're on the same situation.
Don't say that about yourself try and instrument or something all the kids my school found something like singing, acting, dancing, artists, and even kids in business!
You be you, and that's enough :)
Trover19 um i have dance classes but i cANT DANCE
you’ll never be able to do something if you dont try, it’s never too late to accomplish something :D
2:04 the captions say "(speaking in foreign language)"
Because of course there are only 2 languages:
1. English
2. Foreign (impossible to learn)
simplified chinese
traditional chinese is more hard to learn
@@yjy2940 the only difference between simplified and traditional chinese is that traditional chinese has more complicated symbols
there is only 1 version of spoken chinese
For Forigeners english is foreign
Levi Ackerman ikr, some people just don’t understand. Sigh....
This is so fascinating to me. My brother was born blind but is very musicly gifted. He plays guitar, paino, and the drums like they are second nature. It's amazing what such gifted people can do even when missing one or even two of their main senses. It's truly amazing.
They listen to each other's breathing😐This is some ninja stuff guys
That's what she said..
@@joerodriguez3761 ? That didn't make sense bro but good to know you're thinking dirty 🙄
@@WaterKatara well it was more of an amusing thought, but not many people realize that..
BelleJaneKidaBarbieZeldaSamus not really...I was in an acapella choir for a few years and I can tell you that without a doubt the easiest way to keep in time with the group is to synchronize your breathing. When you can’t see, your other senses become more refined, so it’s entirely within the realm of possibility for a group of blind musicians to keep time through listening to each other breathe
Yeah but
Ninja=Japan
Not China.
The dancers somehow reminds me of Earth Benders from Avatar! The way they interpret the beat of the drum through the ground, along with the handmovements hehehe!
＠ふわふわふわふわ I thought the same thing 😂😂
Exactly!! 🌚🥔🌚
Seismic sense
Like toph!
I love that movie....
My dance teacher:
You need to hear the music To dance on beat and with the flow of the music
The deaf dancers in this:
**signs: Hold my water bottle**
This video makes me realise that my ability to hear and see is lucky, and I should be thankful for it.
Edit: omg 40 likes thank you so much!
i don't think people realize how hard it is to be a musician without any visual cues, especially in an ensemble, and to dance with no sound of the rhythm is absolutely incredible
(also, bod hit sat va? really? its bō-di-suht-va)
So informative
Some people can't pronounce properly.
Meg Shankar I’m Tibetan Chinese and when he said that I CRINGED lol.
Voice actors are not researchers or linguists, he read Bodhisattva in English and simply pronounced it as an English-speaker would naturally do... It's not like the subject here is Sanskrit, Buddhism or even Guanyin...
Plus, to be consistent with Chinese Bouddhism and faithful to the pronunciation in a Chinese context (they're in Beijing), he would have said it in Mandarin rather than in Sanskrit, wouldn't he ? =) [=pútísàduǒ, or simply púsà].
Meg Shankar Yes he has a English accident.. so unusually isn’t it? God.
“their feet can feel and pick up sound vibrations that come theough the floor” so your telling me that they are earthbenders?
r/woooooosh
Avatar Fandom!?
When they said that u immediately thought of Avator...
fanboi do u not know who Toph is???
fanboi do you not know who Toph is???
Here's a joke:
Buddha: Ummmm have any of you seen Guanyin lately?
Other person: Uhhhhh I think she's still busy washing her all her hands.
*sHe dOsEN't hAvE lOaDs oF hAnDs, iT's jUsT lOaDs oF pEoPle!*
‘Their feet can feel the vibrations of the drums’
Toph is that you
They came to our elementary when I was in grade 3 and performed in front of our entire 3000+ students. it was a breathtaking experience.
Mintchocoable you have 3000+ students in ur elementary?? Holy shit where do u live? I had like 42
Beijing. I went there for three years. It was one of the most prestigious elementary school in China where most of my fellow classmates were diplomats, higher officials in government and scientists' kids. One of the kids a grade below me was the son of the first astronaut to be sent into space by the Chinese space program. Established in 1949, same year as the People's Republic of China, you can't enroll in that school simply with just money, you need connections to get in. The average tuition was around 32k USD per year (two semesters) in the 2000s. Our principal at the time was the wife of a military chief, she retired in her 70s and our new principal had an education Ph.D. from Harvard. Our school was HUGE that grade 1 and 2 each had 12 classes with 60 students per class and grade 3-6 had 8 classes with the similar amount of students. We had to open another school at another location to deal with over-population since its located in the heart of Beijing. Oh fun fact, we actually got to celebrate our 60th anniversary of school at the Great Hall of the People (state building where government officials use it to hold legislative and ceremonial activities like foreign relation events. )
Mintchocoable
So 😎
Indigoblue Enthustiast do you actually have only 42 people in your whole school??
The exact place, or just somewhere that did the same dance style?
This is incredibly heartwarming.
Ivan Smirnov I know right :')
a bit sad too.
Ivan Smirnov OMG THEY CAME TO COSTA RICA AND I SAW THEM IN A RESTAURANT PRESENTING A SHOW😨😱😱
anyone know the song at the start?
WOW this is like the Chinese Matrix!!! :O
2:00
A more accurate translation would be: Besides practicing over and over again, we also have our own tricks.
Them: *Dances Beautifully*
Me with my team in history: So do you like bread
I had a friend in ballet who was deaf and during recitals our teacher would be at the back of the theater beating glow in the dark drumsticks so that my friend could follow the beat. She also greatly enjoyed tap since she could "hear" the tapping from everyone's shoes.
Aww that's so sweet
That's so wholesome! I love how your teacher went above and beyond.
Thats a nice teacher!
Meanwhile in America people are eating Tide Pods
Why point out the Americans? If You're Going To Diss A Country, just diss all of them.
+Simply Tiff but there's no point in dissing other countries, when Americans are the only ones eating tide pods
Agree
Meanwhile In Finland The streets are filled with snow
Meanwhile in England grown adults are fighting on television
Okay.... why would anyone dislike this video? These people seem to be living their best life. Seem fulfilled and happy. People who dislike this just have to be trolls
trolls
yes
Miss click....
nah its bots.
People: *learned a dance that’s really hard*
Me: *cant do renegade*
love their passion and glad they were given the opportunity to perform!
C Hushgege probably that not many would take in people with disabilities (I’ve seen it a lot 🙃)...so they’re happy that they have a place for them to showcase their talents and dreams
I love your profile pic tho, it's a cute derpy looking cat 😺
BluH Blab that’s Ollie also known as the polite cat
Dayum this is mesmerizing.
Also, the new narrator has a great voice.
Uncle Bob lol
ikr
Uncle Bob wow
Uncle Bob M
Uncle Bob o
Being a deaf person myself, every aspect of this deeply impresses me. I do hope every one of these actors are having a great life, whether performing or not
Mad respect to the one who gave hope and dreams to the disabilities
This story is amazing and beautiful. Thanks for the video.
Hi I'm Catbug ikr
Hi I'm Catbug i
OMG A CATBUG ARE YOU ALSO A MIRACULOUS FAN ME TOO
No matter what you do, you just can't beat the Chinese. Period.
Indra Gunawan i do believe in effort. perhaps they put 3000% effort to accomplish something.
It all depends on whether u want to try your hardest on doing it or just Give up
Communism tho
deaf people blind people has another special sence which make best artist in all time
SURDAS used to wrote song about god but he cannot see what he wrote
kali das wrote all raga same case here too
Unless you're Japanese, they've done it a bunch throughout history.
Okay that makes me so happy and impressed. I'm Brazilian and two years ago I started learning our sign language, Libras, and met a lot of wonderful people, translators and deaf, and heared a lot of stories. I learned that they're very talkative (oh my God, they speak A LOT non-stop) and share a lot of stories where their conditions made the situation difficult, but they tried their best. Seeing this kind of thing, I can just think that they're winners. Their condition did not stop them. They tried, they learned, they conquered. I'm so happy right now!
Being able to understand what they’re saying without the captions is just... the best feeling ever
It's really sad that they are interviewing blind people but decided to directly encode the captions into the video where a blind person's screen reader can't pick it up. Least they could have done is added all of it to the description, but they didn't.
I LOVE THIS STORY!
This is the best video you made
The Zahra Jam Yeah!
YES I KNEW THERE WOULD BE A GREAT BIG STORY FOR THEM! i love this group of dancers so much
When I was younger, I had the chance to see them IRL thanks to my mom and to this day it is the most impressive show I've ever seen, truly magical.
Theres something so beautiful that so many people with so many different experiences can join together to create something so ethereal
they are truly an inspiration, so mesmerizing
Indeed
I’m awestruck. What a victory for these performers, to fight past a disability and excel beyond excellence shows grit, perseverance and fortitude! They are truly inspiring.
The blind guy that is card mechanic on Penn and Teller said, lazy and procrastination are worst, give me blindness any day.
Ugh I'm tired of hearing the word "grit"
Why would someone dislike this? This is literally an outstanding work of art
I just keep replaying the start over and over again
Why is it that this video is partially about deaf people and yet have no captioning? Sincerely, a deaf guy
Taylor Anderson it has CC now! I'm deaf too 😊
Great Big Story
Thank you, I really appreciate that. I apologize if I came off as rude, it's just frustrating wanting to see other people with disabilities accomplishing amazing things and yet not understand entirely what is going on in the case of this video. I thank you for your quick response and upload of captions. The videos your channel produce look amazing, keep showing the world that anybody can do anything. Thank you.
As a deaf guy too, I'm tearing up (not really)!!! It's nice to show the world that people with disability can do anything AMAZING!!!!!
thats a cute dog
Being a coda, I can’t live without captions. I’m glad to see they added them.
My math teacher showed us the Thousand Hand dance video at the beginning of class one day. I thought it was amazing that people with no hearing could learn such a difficult dance and stay in rhythm.
Is actual kpop trash cool math teacher.
When hearing is gone other part becomes more function
Daesung :o
I’d love to be able to see them perform merely because of the art forms. I watched the bodhisattva dance and it was breathtaking. I was a dancer all through school. I also played instruments and sang. These arts require the souls of the performers to deeply love their art form. Knowing they’re disabled is interesting to me.
They visited and performed in my country last year. I swear my husband and I were smile crying the whole time. It was and has been the most beautifil thing I've ever seen.
This video is beautiful.
I thought that the dance was cool
when it was produced years ago,
but after watching this, I didn’t even
know they were deaf, this is amazing, and
really inspiring.
Don't complain; everyone can do something special. - this is what they teach us all.
Apparently I'm not everyone
this made me cry it was so heartwarming, because my brother is disabled but now i know he can bring out his full potential and shine as bright as I know he is!
They can feel music from their feet. Goosebumbs 😨😨😨😨 its something like anime and super coool
Amazing, i love their performance, i even have it in my Amazing Dance playlist.
Knowing the hardwork they do make this even more special and great
Thùy Dương Nguyễn Mai please share the link
You have an amazing dance playlist? That's cool. Have you heard of Full Radius Dance Company? Many of their performers are physically disabled:
th-cam.com/video/K5UxFX0PSvw/w-d-xo.html
What I really love about them is that they don't treat the disability as something that has to be worked around in order to perform the dance; rather, they incorporate it into the dance in some really beautiful ways. What I remember most from when I saw them is how they used the wheelchairs into the dance. The result was something different than I'd ever seen before.
I'm proud of being Chinese.
Guge Yao I am proud of being a person too.
shah himi wow best comment ever
Guge Yao 对啊！
I am proud of being American. We can all be happy with what we are, do let us be.
@@adventuresociety588 No one is ethnically "American", but I see your point, leading torwards being EUROPEAN..
Boy am I ever glad this just randomly showed up in my feed!
Kudos to those dancers and musicians. I'm proud of those Chinese.
as a Deaf performer, this was very inspiring to watch! Hopefully I will see the group perform onstage one day ❤
Damn, these people are amazing :D
Hats off to each of these performers, they are truly inspirational.
This is so. SO unbelievably amazing. From one that has sight and hearing. I don't have words to express what hard work. What perceiving. This made me cry. So so SO BEAUTIFUL. WE should not take things for granted. Amazing. ❤️❤️❤️
Man... All of this is just reminds me of Toph from Avatar the Last Airbender. One of my favorite characters in the show♡
IKR
*These moments*
are what makes me realize how fortunate I am
This just makes me feel so good and humanist.
I love humanity for beautiful things like this. The astonishing beauty and kindness this performance and art brings and the story behind it...
This is just great.
Instead of asking for help and being miserable, they decided to improve themselves.
This should be inspiration not only for disabled but anyone.
Thank for sharing.
I agree that it’s an inspiration, but I don’t think it’s right to imply that asking for help is a negative thing. Some people should get help when they need it. It’s not always healthy to try to do everything by yourself. Neither is completely a better option, since it’s really a case-by-case thing, but the wording of your comment just put me off.
They still ask for and need help. Help for disabled people is just fair accommodations, like when the dance teacher helped them work on rhythm, when the music teachers direct the blind musicians to their chairs, etc. they are doing something great, but disabled people aren’t bad or wrong for asking for help.
Participating in this program IS them asking for help...
This is beautiful and truly inspiring. ...
'Don't stop me now' from Queen was playing in my head throughout this video. They are simply amazing.
they listen to each oter breaths, dance by feeling the vibrations on the ground, holy cow they're amazing! I could never imagine trying to dance in sync with others without saying out loud numbers or the music let alone how all these people perform in such unison
Oh, this is just awesome. Really goes to show there really are no limits to what a person can do!
Also, I really want to watch that sword dance live. It looks. So. Cool.
Finally the show that made all the way to the Chinese NY Gala, ten years ago
So difficult for the teacher to teach, so difficult for the students to learn yet so normal for us. True talent. 👌
I watched clips of their performances online before and loved it, I but had no idea they were physicaly impaired. Inspirational. With a will, perseverance and patience there is always a way to be find.💪💜
This is the definition of amazing
to me deft people most beautiful human that i've ever seen, meanwhile blind people has wonderful voice.
willa sheis it is deaf
this video has been recommended to me like six times in the past five years and i am so happy about it
I live for these performers
I feel so lucky to be born in China. It makes me so lucky that my people are so talented. I really do feel blessed.
when you have a population that big you are bound to have significantly more talented people
My school lets students dance this too every year an event and in order to join one of my chinese teachers choose students randomly from any class but sadly I’m not one of them
Saw this years ago. Still very amazing. True determination.
I just sat in front of my 88 key piano with the keyboard covered with a black piece of cloth. I dropped my right hand with the intention of my thumb to strike middle C. I kept my thumb down and lifted the cover with my left hand... My thumb was on middle C. While in music school, I would practice my recital pieces in a basement studio room with the lights off without any mistakes, I knew exactly where I was. So folks, there's nothing amazing about the blind being able to play an instrument: You watched Stevie and Ray do it many times!
This is beauty, both inside and outside
I'm very sorry but. What's the name id the backround song called ?
Darude sandstorm
I first watched this in my Theater class and it still moves me today. I really loved the japanese and chinese traditions in the theatrical arts.
I couldn't find the words to describe how much I impressed
I’ve never been more touched 💜💜
Woaaah my school invited them and we actually got to see them live yay
This shows that anyone can learn
Art of teaching is what it takes !!!
BEAUTIFUL, thank you!
I just realized the orchestra and the dancers can't communicate whatsoever, cuz the dancers communicate through signs and the orchestra can't read them. That makes them even more fascinating