World Culture Open (Cultural competition)

The World Culture Open 2004 Cultural Competition was held in Seoul, Korea. Nearly 400 artists from every inhabitable continent in the world had landed on the Korean peninsula that night, eager to share and exchange their artistic traditions and cultural heritage. This Uyghur dance(Dawanqing qizi) is the winner of the competition(Dance) highest award- World Peace award.
Dancer is Dilnar Abdulla,music is from the Uyghur folk song Qemberhan.

Other competition winners-- Music: Morin Khuur (Mongolia), Martial Arts: Baek Ey Sun In (Korea), Body, Mind, Spirit Cultivation: Chen Style Tai Chi Center (Korea), Extreme Martial Arts (USA)
The main selection criterion for the WCO 2004 Cultural Competition evaluated a competitor's ability to reflect the values/ideals inherent in the word'Harmony.' Thus the cultural competition forged a new standard: to promote dialogue and to exchange cultural wisdoms as well as to value each culture's excellence and worth.
Contestants are from the following countries:
Ghana, Greece, Thailand, India, Australia, Brazil,Netherlands,Indonesia,Poland,Russia,Panama,Taiwan,Philippines,Uzbekistan,­Azerbaijan,Kazakhstan,Venezuela,Iran,Kenya,Sudan,Belgium,Srilanka, Japan, Vietnam, France, Peru, Tanzania, Mali......

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• Uyghur
• Uighur
• folk
• traditional
• Dancing
• Turk
• Turkish
• Turkic
• Uzbek
• muslin
• islam
• persian
• iranian
• arabic
• indian
• Asia

[dolcedolce333]

what sort of music is this? the dance is cool and nice but the music doesn't sound uyghur for me

[Duldul601]

That music is from the Uyghur folk song Qemberhan. check out this:

watch?v=Y7Jqb_Sc8hs

[MalikaDilruz]

Dilnar Abdullah ,we Uyghurs proud of you!

[colouredwinds]

I see lots of elements that belong to Turkic nations in her dance. But she herself is great as well as the dance!

[rungsunklink]

World Culture Open (Cultural competition)

[sdiwu2046]

in a interview she said, that time her ankle was injured, but she insisted to perform. When on the stage, as she started to dance several steps, amazingly she didn't feel any pain on her ankle and there she kept dancing. Until the final step, she felt her ankle can't be moved again, thus made her couldn't stand up. The juries was very shocked to found out she was injured yet she could perform outstandingly.

[shahidz93]

ufffffff i have no words to describe the beauty of this dancer and music and and and ............

[PrimaveraBailando]

loved the performance. thanks for uploading. the uyghur dance is so beautiful ... are there any classes available on dvd?

[xamsiya]

she is from Xinjiang,China. She is Uighur's wellknown dancer , famous for her sharp technique and sweet performance. Her name is Dilnar Abdulla. she also sings as well.

[Harichan17]

Agreed. Everyone in the world just needs to be a little more open minded and remember that the world is indeed connected.

[Harichan17]

Hey, I'm Pakistani too! I find this fascinating and beautiful as well, so you're not alone ^^

[kanazef]

nice performance..and beautiful dance.. with that outfit, and song so beautiful..btw..wher is she from ?

[wolfeheart]

nice!live long my uygur people!