Loop by Xuan Le. — Photos Goethe InstituteHanoi (VNA) - Vietnamese and international dancers will perform in theHanoi Dance Fest 2019 on June 28 and 30.
The festival will include six dances choreographed and performed by artistsunder 34 years old.
“The festival aims to create a stage for young and talented choreographers,”said the festival's art director and acting director of the Vietnam NationalOpera and Ballet (VNOB) Tran Ly Ly.
“It also promotes new ideas and collaborations between local and internationalchoreographers who are working in different cultural contexts.”
Following the success of the Europe – Asia Contemporary Dance Festival inprevious years, VNOB, Hanoi Goethe-Institute and the French Cultural Centrehave worked together to bring Hanoi Dance Fest 2019 to the Vietnam YouthTheatre.
“With great sympathy, we cherish the development of choreographers and dancersin Vietnam,” said Goethe institute director Wilfried Eckstein at the pressconference in Hanoi.
“Their motivation is built on the beauty of the arts and the interest of theaudiences. We encourage them to explore new paths of expression in dance and tobuild national and international co-operation,” Eckstein said.
The six dances will be Random Cubic by Baydanc Group, Than by Nguyen Duy Thanh,Into The Well by Vu Ngoc Khai, FeMale by James Sutherland, Loop by Xuan Le andMultidimensional by Huy Tran.
On June 28, festival-goers will see performances of Random Cubic, Than and IntoThe Well.
Baydanc, which created Random Cubic, is a group of artists including dancersand traditional musicians. The dance is inspired by cardboard and stickymaterials like tape and rice. Over the course of 30 minutes, the dancers useimprovised movements to create blocks from the materials.
Than was inspired by the traditional Vietnamese art form tuong and takes itsstyle from the body language of its performers. The dancer builds thebackground and how the story continues depends on the audience.
Into The Well will be performed with Tay Son battle drum-inspired music.
“There is only one person who knows how to play Tay Son battle drum in thecentral province of Binh Dinh,” said dancer Khai. “There are three kinds ofrhythm and we just use one rhythm during the fighting in our dance.”
Khai currently works at Konzert Theatre Bern in Switzerland. Last year, he wonfirst prize at the International Ayang Young Choreographer Competition in theRepublic of Korea.
FeMale by Scottish choreographer James Sutherland will be performed by dancersVittoria Carpegna, Camilla Marcati and Davide Degano. The piece opens on June30 and centres around the characters' relationships.
French-Vietnamese dancer Xuan Le will perform his first solo piece entitledLoop. Le was the champion of France's Slalom League in 2009 and ranked sixth atthe Slalom World Series in freestyle the same year.
Loop will combine freestyle slalom and dance. The audience will have theopportunity to immerse themselves in the artistic and poetic imaginary world.
A group of dancers will perform Multidimensional choreographed by Huy Tran. Thedance offers the audience different perspectives on one choreography.
Huy graduated from Vietnam Dance Academy. He won the first prize at the YoungChoreographer – CJC Neuhausen in Switzerland in 2011. He works for the Tanz derPfalztheater Kaiserslautern ensemble and will become its co-director of dancein August this year. – VNS/VNA
The festival will include six dances choreographed and performed by artistsunder 34 years old.
“The festival aims to create a stage for young and talented choreographers,”said the festival's art director and acting director of the Vietnam NationalOpera and Ballet (VNOB) Tran Ly Ly.
“It also promotes new ideas and collaborations between local and internationalchoreographers who are working in different cultural contexts.”
Following the success of the Europe – Asia Contemporary Dance Festival inprevious years, VNOB, Hanoi Goethe-Institute and the French Cultural Centrehave worked together to bring Hanoi Dance Fest 2019 to the Vietnam YouthTheatre.
“With great sympathy, we cherish the development of choreographers and dancersin Vietnam,” said Goethe institute director Wilfried Eckstein at the pressconference in Hanoi.
“Their motivation is built on the beauty of the arts and the interest of theaudiences. We encourage them to explore new paths of expression in dance and tobuild national and international co-operation,” Eckstein said.
The six dances will be Random Cubic by Baydanc Group, Than by Nguyen Duy Thanh,Into The Well by Vu Ngoc Khai, FeMale by James Sutherland, Loop by Xuan Le andMultidimensional by Huy Tran.
On June 28, festival-goers will see performances of Random Cubic, Than and IntoThe Well.
Baydanc, which created Random Cubic, is a group of artists including dancersand traditional musicians. The dance is inspired by cardboard and stickymaterials like tape and rice. Over the course of 30 minutes, the dancers useimprovised movements to create blocks from the materials.
Than was inspired by the traditional Vietnamese art form tuong and takes itsstyle from the body language of its performers. The dancer builds thebackground and how the story continues depends on the audience.
Into The Well will be performed with Tay Son battle drum-inspired music.
“There is only one person who knows how to play Tay Son battle drum in thecentral province of Binh Dinh,” said dancer Khai. “There are three kinds ofrhythm and we just use one rhythm during the fighting in our dance.”
Khai currently works at Konzert Theatre Bern in Switzerland. Last year, he wonfirst prize at the International Ayang Young Choreographer Competition in theRepublic of Korea.
FeMale by Scottish choreographer James Sutherland will be performed by dancersVittoria Carpegna, Camilla Marcati and Davide Degano. The piece opens on June30 and centres around the characters' relationships.
French-Vietnamese dancer Xuan Le will perform his first solo piece entitledLoop. Le was the champion of France's Slalom League in 2009 and ranked sixth atthe Slalom World Series in freestyle the same year.
Loop will combine freestyle slalom and dance. The audience will have theopportunity to immerse themselves in the artistic and poetic imaginary world.
A group of dancers will perform Multidimensional choreographed by Huy Tran. Thedance offers the audience different perspectives on one choreography.
Huy graduated from Vietnam Dance Academy. He won the first prize at the YoungChoreographer – CJC Neuhausen in Switzerland in 2011. He works for the Tanz derPfalztheater Kaiserslautern ensemble and will become its co-director of dancein August this year. – VNS/VNA
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