Lihua Tai

Lihua Tai comes via the suggest post from LoveAsianWomen, who reckons you guys need a bit of culture—and who am I to argue when it comes in such a beautiful package…

Lihua Tai is the lead dancer and creator of the Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance, a fantastic achievement in itself, made more inspirational by the fact that she leads a troupe of hearing impaired dancers.

Born in 1976, Tai has been deaf herself from the age of two. She didn’t embrace music until well into primary school, when a teacher saw potential and taught her to feel the vibrations and it took off from there. She studied the work of famed Chinese dancer Yang Li Ping who later helped her hone her skills, and now is one of China’s most famous dancers, having performed in over 40 countries including the Athen’s Paralympics, Carnegie Hall and La Scala Milan.

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  1. Avatar of TivoMan

    For those that are intrigued by this type of performance, this Chinese deaf troupe has been doing this exact show for nearly a decade. One of the first televised showings is still posted on YouTube from 2006 and has better camera angles – especially near the end – shot from above the dancers. This shows the caterpillar effect of their arm movements.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Uc0Qd8H-s

    It also reveals the non-deaf stage assistants on the sides of the stage that give visual cues to the troupe so they stay in sync with the music.

    Amazing performance and beautiful women.

  2. Avatar of Guest Poster

    I find it ironic that it was LoveAsianWomen (he who reduced every siren to stats) who felt we needed more culture. :)

    Anyway, this post has inspired me to do a follow-up to my old AS article on Yang Li Ping—back then, there weren’t any videos of her available, and very few, low res pics. Now there’s plenty of vids and high res pics, so I can do a much better article. Coming very soon!

  3. Avatar of chioeve

    Interesting, not a usual post from asiansirens.

  4. Avatar of fungusfarm

    What visual treat! Lovely performance.
    I like that despite their physical challenge, they can show the world their artistic and creative side.

  5. gunnar’s avatar

    meh…

  6. John Smith’s avatar

    Breast not siren, hair siren ect…. JK :) The beauty of their inner strength is prodigious.

  7. vlietArsenal’s avatar

    She is showing everybody the size of my ~~~~~ in the third picture. LOL. N.C.

  8. Avatar of Luke

    John Smith,

    Lol, I was waiting for someone to do that. LAW seems to be missing lately which is a shame. I hope he sees this.

  9. Avatar of LoveAsianWomen

    Luke,

    Yes I still check the site. Good to see this entry.

    As for being “missing”, I am not. As I said, I still check the site as there are some fine Asian women chronicled on here. But since the apparent “attitude” on the site is that criticism is not wanted, I will not post and present my thoughts/opinions. That had been apparent in the past, and the very reason I went to my most recent way to comment. That, also didn’t work, as the main purpose, seems to me, is to get all to say nice things and agree with certain people. A difference of opinion is not wanted, ergo, why waste my time to be told what I think is wrong, irrelevant, or whatever. Take care…LoveAsianWomen

  10. Avatar of Guest Poster

    LoveAsianWomen,

    It isn’t that critical opinions aren’t wanted, it’s just that the style of your ‘stats’ comments grated, especially over time. Just go back to the way you used to comment—they weren’t any problem for anyone.

    I also have to say that a post like this one shows the clear limitations of reducing women to stats.

  11. Avatar of Luke

    LoveAsianWomen,

    I really appreciate the comments even when I don’t agree, on a personal level a fair bit of work goes into the posts for the love of it and it’s nice to get positive or considered comments. I know I can get touchy at some criticisms, but as you say everyone’s opinion counts.

    I hope you liked the post, CEC is normally the left-of-centre guy but I like the more unusual suggestions so I hope people keep putting them in.

  12. Avatar of French

    I miss LoveAsianWomen’s contributions….

    I like this woman. Very pretty, and a fine dancer.

    Third picture down: I asked her not to tell the world about me, but she never listens :)

  13. Avatar of LoveAsianWomen

    Dr. Lee,

    Dr. Lee,

    Perhaps you are forgetting, but I even re-stated above, the “stats” style was adopted to mostly eliminate comments, which were frowned upon in the past, if they were not a glowing endorsement of the women featured here. Well, a “meh…” or a “not for me”, seemed to be fine. Reasons given for why one loved the lady were readily accepted, but if an explanation was given as to why not, well then, THAT is when the problem, as I see it, arose.

    Anyway, I’ll likely still peruse the lovely women featured here, but beyond that…

  14. Avatar of Guest Poster

    LoveAsianWomen,

    I don’t recall giving you any warnings or anything like that—am I forgetting something?

    As I have often stated in the past, negative comments are fine, but you do have to say them the right way. For example, don’t say “this girl is ugly”, say “I don’t find this girl attractive” or something like that. I think you know how to do it—you’ve been posting on AS for along time, and once again I don’t recall warning you.

  15. Avatar of Romanticwarrior

    My first thought on seeing her pics was, “pretty woman but ummmmm….”
    After seeing her perform my admiration for her, her physical attributes and her art increased tenfold. Funny how that happens. Same thing happened with my Japanese niece-in-law. An attractive but not beautiful woman…until you get to know her. The longer you do the more attractive she becomes.

    I think more than a few of the back dancers could have been featured as well.

  16. Avatar of LoveAsianWomen

    Dr. Lee,

    I am not here to argue. I will tell you this, you or someone that can, did in fact ban, not warn me, from here back in about 2009, I think it was. As I recall a user here was not saying things “the right way” and I supported his right to say what he did on a public forum. I am in no way for censorship, especially if it is just for not saying things “the right way”.

    You might check your history for one former member, “AsianWomenAlways”.

    I do thank you for having a excellent site to peruse, which I will continue to do.

  17. Avatar of Guest Poster

    LoveAsianWomen,

    No wonder I don’t remember—that was 5 years ago under a different alias!

    Obviously things have been fine since then, but what you want to do is up to you of course.

  18. Avatar of wingsfan19

    Romanticwarrior,

    I think you’re playing with fire there regarding your niece.

  19. Avatar of Romanticwarrior

    wingsfan19,

    Nahhh. All talk aside, whether here or in the real world, there’s no one for me but my wife.

  20. Avatar of Romanticwarrior

    Dr. Lee,

    Yup, right. I’m a big admirer of many of these girls physical attributes but I’ve learned – the hard way – beauty truly can be only skin deep.

  21. Avatar of Guest Poster

    Romanticwarrior wrote:

    Yup, right. I’m a big admirer of many of these girls physical attributes but I’ve learned – the hard way – beauty truly can be only skin deep.

    Yep, that is most certainly true.

  22. MaJieMao’s avatar

    I’ve seen many performance troupes in my time in China, always amazed at the skill and beauty of the young ladies, but to add a disability on top of already wonderful performances is awe-inspiring.

  23. Avatar of daznlover

    Great performance at the telethon. Really gifted girls.
    Pretty too, of course!

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