Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva Chinese Dance

This amazing video shows the Thousand-Hand Dance which includes 21 hearing impaired Chinese performers at the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival.

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The precision and beauty of the dance is amazing forming remarkable arm and hand positions standing behind each other in a perfect column.

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By Sun Tzu on 18-10-2007

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Comments (9)

  1. Comment by darkwing duck

    October 18th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    Dam that a lot of arms.

  2. Comment by Casual Adventurer

    October 18th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    Amazing….. Someone should give them a….. er….. hand

  3. Comment by Bob

    October 18th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    Delightful.

  4. Comment by Trish

    October 21st, 2007 at 1:03 am

    beautiful

  5. Comment by Trish

    October 21st, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    All of these performers are deaf. Disabled? How about amazingly abled!

  6. Comment by harlan wheeler

    November 21st, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Now that’s a “chinese’s HandJob”

  7. Comment by erika

    May 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    yeah….that was realy amazing

  8. Comment by Sultan_Azteca

    July 17th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Utterly mesmerizing and unbelievable.
    Plus the girl @ 3:30 is so darn cute!
    I would guess this has some touches of hindu imagery and representation, I don’t know…

  9. Comment by Hope

    August 10th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    that is amazingly beautiful!

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