Chinese art troupe to perform in Hanoi

The Lotus Art Troupe from Guangxi, China will give a performance at the Hanoi Opera House on June 17.
The troupe has come to Vietnam to attend the ongoing Hue Festival in the ancient city of Hue.

The Lotus Art Troupe will feature its most excellent acts, which have achieved grand prizes from Chinese national art festivals, such as the dancing drama “Phuong Vu Truong Linh” (Everlasting Sacred Phoenix Dance), the martial drama “Da Con Xuat Tuong” (Martial Stick Fighting), the dancing play “Ti Muoi Du Xuan” (Elder and Younger Sisters Enjoying a Spring Walk), the traditional opera play “Bien Dien” (Art of Changing Faces) which shows one of the exceptional skills of the traditional opera art of Sichuan-China, and other dancing, circus, and magic acts.

Founded in 2004, the Lotus Art Troupe from Guangxi is a provincial art group which assembles many famous and outstanding artists from various types of art such as singing and dancing, circus, traditional opera of China.

Born out of ethnic minorities like Han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, those artists are all directors, choreographers, actors and actresses who have achieved titles of national first-class and second-class meritorious artists.

Throughout it’s work, the Lotus Art Troupe has formed for itself a distinctive art style typical of the South of China. The artists of the Troupe has inherited and created series of exceptional acts, particularly the play “Da Con Xuat Tuong” (Stick Fighting) which has been performed for numerous times at the Welcoming Spring Gala of the Chinese Central Television and was gloriously recognized as an excellent performance in the second Chinese Traditional Opera Festival. In this play, martial opera performers will showcase a perfect feature of the traditional opera art, namely “Dieu Tuong Cong”, which features an extremely difficult martial arts techniques of Chinese Opera Drama; the play “Ti Muoi Du Xuan” (Elder and younger sisters enjoying a spring walk) gained the first prize of the national Pink Apricot Award; or the circus act “Vien Trac Luu Bang” (Roller-Skating on Round Table) was also awarded with gold medal by the Red Bronze Drum prize of Guangxi.

In recent years, the Lotus Art Troupe has been invited to various prestigious domestic and international art festivals such as the French Art Festival, the Theatre Festivals in Thailand, Singapore and many other countries, and won acclaims of the audience in the host countries.

(Source:NhanDan Online)

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Chinese art troupe to perform in Hanoi

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