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After three years of touring Europe, the Lang toi (My village) circus by artist Nhat Ly will perform at the Hanoi Opera House for free on August 10.
Lang toi is a combination of arts, highlighting the peaceful country life and the poetic scenery of Vietnam. Vietnamese bamboo is used as a unique means to help viewers understand the body language of the artists who dance, tread and perform acrobatics on bamboo pipes and perform subtle tricks with bamboo baskets. The stage is decorated with bamboo screens and musical instruments are also made of bamboo.
Lang toi is staged by overseas Vietnamese artists including circus artist Tuan Anh (Germany), song writer Nhat Ly (France) and circus teacher Nguyen Lan (France).
The initiative was born six years ago when the artists came together to draft a French-Vietnamese cultural exchange program to build a new circus program with ethnic culture as the main material.
With an elegant combination of circus acts, music, installation and conformation, Lang toi was invited to France for its first performance abroad at Quai Branly Museum in Paris from June to July 2009.
Since then, it has toured Europe and been to Singapore in the last few years and has won the hearts of many audiences.
The circus group performed at the Central Theater in Hanoi on the occasion of 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi in 2010.
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