Reflection and concept on the performance.
Mongolian visual artist Onongua Enkhtur
Mongolian Traditional Lon-Song Singer Narandulam Altantsetseg
The antelope baby has been lost. Danzan Ravjaa, a poet and spiritual master from Mongolia, requested that their students bring the baby antelope to its mother. However, the students have deceived him. The master noticed it immediately and sang this song.
The meaning is symbolic as the baby is looking for her mother and asking the mother to accept her disappearance. The master's lyrics suggest that humans can deceive and mislead their lives with their egos, believing it is not immoral.
The song conveys that our actions can harm ourselves and creation, and we are often unaware of the consequences.
Onongua brought a variety of "Deel" Mongolian costumes, which were meant to represent human existence. She arranged them in a circle with each other, demonstrating the circle of life, continuity, eternity, and the intelligence of the entire creation.
With her calm yet profound breath, Narandulam's voice evokes a sense of eternity.
There are costumes for adults and children, as we consider different sizes to represent continuity, recurrence, and the circular movement of life.
The performance encourages us to contemplate creation and its fundamental intelligence, which transcends moral or immoral boundaries because creation's intelligence has its ultimate ethics. Will you bring the baby antelope back to its mother? Or...
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