The Lang Toi (My Village) circus show with acts reflecting the dailylives of Vietnamese villages will return to Hanoi at the Kim Ma Theatreon December 20-21.
Lang Toi is a contemporary circusperformance, which combines traditional circus skills and theatricaltechniques to convey a story or theme. Daily life is told through themovement of performers in villagers' costumes, giving an illusion of thepeaceful life of a Vietnamese village.
Villagersawake as the rooster crows… the daily market starts with the cries ofsellers and chatter of market-goers, the children play jump rope whiletheir parents work in the rice paddies… Taking a break from their work,farmers smoke bamboo pipes under the tropical sun.
In the evening, lovers meet on suspended high wires under the glisteninglight… At the heart of the spectacle, one can hear the sound oftraditional musical instruments playing a melody that vibrates with thepulse of life created by the pace and rhythm of acrobats and jugglers…taking the audience to the centre of this transformed space, to see thereflection of life in a remote village.
The showcame into being in 2005 under the direction of Nguyen Lan, Le Tuan andNguyen Nhat Ly who sought to create a distinct Vietnamese style ofcircus act that also applied modern expressionist techniques.
Lang Toi was first performed abroad at Quai Branly Museum in Paris in2009. Since then the show has toured internationally, visiting countriessuch as France, Belgium, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, China,Singapore and the Republic of Korea.-VNA
Lang Toi is a contemporary circusperformance, which combines traditional circus skills and theatricaltechniques to convey a story or theme. Daily life is told through themovement of performers in villagers' costumes, giving an illusion of thepeaceful life of a Vietnamese village.
Villagersawake as the rooster crows… the daily market starts with the cries ofsellers and chatter of market-goers, the children play jump rope whiletheir parents work in the rice paddies… Taking a break from their work,farmers smoke bamboo pipes under the tropical sun.
In the evening, lovers meet on suspended high wires under the glisteninglight… At the heart of the spectacle, one can hear the sound oftraditional musical instruments playing a melody that vibrates with thepulse of life created by the pace and rhythm of acrobats and jugglers…taking the audience to the centre of this transformed space, to see thereflection of life in a remote village.
The showcame into being in 2005 under the direction of Nguyen Lan, Le Tuan andNguyen Nhat Ly who sought to create a distinct Vietnamese style ofcircus act that also applied modern expressionist techniques.
Lang Toi was first performed abroad at Quai Branly Museum in Paris in2009. Since then the show has toured internationally, visiting countriessuch as France, Belgium, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, China,Singapore and the Republic of Korea.-VNA
