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First Tibetan Dance Drama Staged In Beijing. "Love story of Raiba", the first Tibetan dance drama over presented on the stage in Beijing recently, was about the life of the wandering "Raiba" artists in eastern Tibet before liberation. Scripted and staged by the Tibetan Song and Dance Troupe, the four-act tragedy depicts the love story of Zhamdui, a young Raiba artist, with a slave's daughter named ... Raiba, a folk art peculiar to Tibetans, is performed with talking, singing dancing and acrobatics. Raiba artists giving a performance. Photo by Cheng Xi