The Chinese Disabled People's Performing Arts Group performs the Thousand Hand Guan Yin.



Who's this Guan Yin dude, you ask?

Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion, revered by Buddhists as the Goddess of Mercy. Her name is short for Guan Shi Yin. Guan means to observe, watch, or monitor; Shi means the world; Yin means sounds, specifically sounds of those who suffer. Thus, Guan Yin is a compassionate being who watches for, and responds to, the people in the world who cry out for help.

What makes this worth noting is that all the performers are deaf, and in the absence of audio cues they've trained rigorously to keep their performance perfectly on beat with the music.

(via Laughing Squid)