Time:
Saturday October 21st, 10:00 - 11:30am Los Angeles/ PST
Online participants, check your time zone
LOCATION:
Topanga, CA 90290
PRICE:
In Person at Pure Land Farms: $30
Online Livestream: By Donation
IN PERSON weekend bundle including Bardo Songs Concert on Sunday October 22nd: $60
Advanced ticket purchase required
Limited onsite accommodations at Pure Land Farms is available for Friday, Saturday, and/ or Sunday nights. Learn more and book here:
ZHANAK BLACK HAT DANCE
Join us for an extremely rare opportunity to witness and participate in the profound practice of Zhanak:
About the practice:
The Zhanak (ཞྭ་ནག་) or Black Hat dance is a sacred cham dance practiced throughout the Buddhist Himalayas named after the black hats which the dancers wear. Performed by Buddhist monks and tantric lay practitioners, it is a ritual act that demonstrates the key Vajrayana principle of subjugation and transformation of negative forces into wisdom.
For more information about the spiritual significance of this practice, visit:
https://texts.mandala.library.virginia.edu/text/zhanak-black-hat-dance
Tsering Dorjee Bawa performs the Zhaanak Black Hat Dance in Yuthok Ling Temple at Pure Land Farms
TSERING DORJEE BAWA
Award-winning artist, Tsering Dorjee Bawa, has been a Tibetan music and arts performer for almost three decades.
Tsering gained a Master’s degree in Tibetan Perfoming Arts in 2000 at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), Dharamsala, India, where he was privileged to study under some of the most legendary Tibetan artists of our time.
At TIPA Tsering studied Tibetan secular dance and music, first as a student and then as an instructor, and has become a master of Tibetan Opera, central Tibetan Step Dance and Cham, a series of colourful, masked, ritual dances performed at major Tibetan festivals.
Tsering later toured many parts of the world to share this knowledge with others and continues to appear as a guest on major Tibetan media platforms to inspire others to discover Tibetan culture.
Tsering continued his acting training in France, the Netherlands, India and America, and in particular at the Barbizon International School of Acting and Modeling in San Francisco, USA.
He has since worked on several notable films, including the 1999 Oscar-nominated movie Himalaya.
Tsering has collaborated with remarkable composers such as Michael Becker, with whom he created the original soundtrack for the 2009 Emmy-Award winning documentary Women of Tibet – A Quiet Revolution.
In 2003, Tsering appeared in the children’s theater show, Tibet Through the Red Box, by David Henry Hwang at the Seattle Children’s Theatre and in 2006 at the Cape Rep. Theatre, MA
In 2014-2017, he performed at the Lincoln Center Theater, NY in the world premier of the off-Broadway show, The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl, and later at the Marin Theater Company in Mill Valley, the San Diego Rep Theatre, and the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.
Tsering was nominated for outstanding male performance in a play at the 2015 Craig Noel Awards at San Diego Theater and won the award for Outstanding Choreography at the 2016 The San Francisco Theater Bay Area Awards.
Most recently, Tsering played the lead in an the independent feature film, “My Son Tenzin” produced by Seykhar Films, which portrayed the clash between traditional and modern Tibetan culture.
Tsering has established a community school program of Tibetan language, music and dance for a new generation of Tibetan children in the Bay area to help preserve Tibet’s traditions of music and art in exile.
To learn more: www.tibetartstudio.com