Delhi based leading fashion designer Ranna Gill will showcase for the first time at Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013. Associating with Mauritius Tourism, her couture collection is inspired by the diverse blend of cultures ...
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The Chinese acrobatics has a long history and rich national flavor. It is one of the art forms most popular among the Chinese people. In a broad sense, acrobatics is the collective name of various kinds of feats. In the primitive society, ...
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The Chinese acrobatics has a long history and rich national flavor. It is one of the art forms most popular among the Chinese people. In a broad sense, acrobatics is the collective name of various kinds of feats. In the primitive society, ...
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Commerce published its annual Genesee County Tourism magazine and for the second year in a row, The Batavian participated in the publication by producing photos and stories. Today, for our Sunday reading, we're publishing four of our ...
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The final exhibition at The Textile Museum before its 2014 reopening will showcase the textile traditions of Southeast Asia and demonstrate how four contemporary artists integrate the best of the past into new works. “Out of Southeast ...
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Yulin ditty is a folk art form in which the actors sit to perform with instrumental accompaniments. It is popular in the downtown area of Yulin City in northwestern Shaanxi Province of China. Story has it that it was brought in by geishas ...
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Also known as "Hop-Hop", Errenzhuan (a kind of folk song-dance duet) is a folk art with strong local flavor featuring ballad singing and dancing popular in Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang Provinces and Xing'an League, Hulun Buir, ...
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There is a great variety of different folk dances existing among the Uygur people in Kumul, all of which have a long history and unique characters. The obvious characters can help us easily tell the Kumul dances from other kinds of dances ...
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Xiangsheng (Crosstalk) is a traditional Chinese comic performance featuring jokes and funny dialogues. Originated in Beijing, the art is popular across the country. It is widely believed that xiangsheng was formed sometime between the ...
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Proposed ASTM standards for aerosol products and artists pastels are among the current activities of Subcommittee D01.57 on Artist Paints and Related Materials,part of ASTM International Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings,Materials ...
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Sang Liangshu was once a typical Chinese housewife. That was before being inspired by her family's intense interest in art. She created a unique paper-cut art, which she called "Xiao Sang Paper-cut." Her style of paper-cut preserves ...
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Called "marionette show" in ancient China, a puppet show is a theatre performance in which puppet figures are made to move by puppeteers pulling strings or by putting their hands inside them. In China, the origin of puppets dates back ...
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Located in the Basin of Lixiahe River in North Jiangsu Province, Jinhu County is surrounded by a lake on three sides. With a vast water area, the county abounds in rice, fish and shrimps. Jinhu County is thus acknowledged as "Land of Fish ...
The custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and remained in vogue until the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by ...
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Song-and-dance Duet, or "Song-and-dance Squad", is a genre of opera prevailing in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and northern regions of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei Province. The repertoires are usually sung by one clown and one positive ...
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