Watch a short excerpt on music and dance in the Pamir Mountains from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance ...

Artists of a local art troupe rehearse a dance in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 4, 2023. [Photo provided by Cheng Tingting/Xinhua] In ...

Tara Catherine Pandeya’s dance career led her last summer to remote Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia. There she learned the unique dance that she will ...

The Badakhshan Ensemble takes its name from the mountainous region — poetically known in Persian as Bam-i Dunya, the "Roof of the World" — that comprises the sparsely populated eastern half of ...

URUMQI, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- In multi-ethnic Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, dance is a lingua franca. A carpet, a speaker and an open space are enough to set the stage. Regardless of gender or age, ...