DALLAS, Texas ( May 13, 2010)--Haley-Henman is pleased to announce Dikchhya Bhatta's performance of the Manjushree dance on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 7pm. This performance will be the international community's premier of this treasure from Nepal. Haley-Henman is particularly pleased to offer this performance as part of Gisela-Heidi and Jürgen Strunck's exhibition that continues until June 12, 2010. It is especially noteworthy because Gisela-Heidi travelled to study Nepal and the Indian subcontinent. She made personal and spiritual connections in the region that figure prominently in her work.
The Manjushree dance is part of the Newari classical dance of Nepal, called Charya. It has always been the province of the Bajracharya clan to preserve this dance as part of Tibetan Buddhist rituals of prayer, which were offered in the cloister of their temple. When Nepal established the Academy of Culture and the Arts, this dance was brought outside the temple cloister to insure its preservation. Only recently has the recording of this dance been permitted.
The dance is a special prayer of thanksgiving to Manjushree, a Buddhist Tibetan monk regarded as a god for the establishment of the Katmandu Valley in Nepal. Part natural science and part legend, the dance tells the story of how Manjushree took a sword and cut the hill of Chaubhar in two. This caused the lake to drain and form the Valley of Katmandu.
This is a free performance. |
