International dance festival 2013 will feature contemporary art
Nhan Dan Online – The international dance festival is set to open its third year from September 26-29 at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theater in Hanoi featuring highly diverse dance styles from five countries, including Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles), France, Great Britain, Israel and Japan.
There will also be one German-Vietnamese and one French-Vietnamese co-production, according to the organiser.
This year’s festival with the theme ‘Europe meets Asia in contemporary dance’, promises audiences five highly entertaining evenings of a broad spectrum of contemporary dance to soundtracks ranging from hip-hop through electronic to classical music.
In the ‘pre-opening’ at L’Espace, a French-Vietnamese group presents the piece Underground. Based on the historical reality of the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam, choreographers John Bateman and Nguyen Anh Duc offer a tribute to the resilience of human life. Like a living mass, a continuous stream, the dancers crisscross and intertwine.
Compagnied’Ici P from the Wallonia-Brussels Delegation presents the solo piece Sillon of FréWerbrouck, danced by Sara Sampelayo Fernandez.
For the first time a Japanese dancer joins the festival. Mikiko Kawamura, having made a clean sweep of New Artist Prizes in Japan, shows a delicate yet powerful solo piece named Alphard, made with her inspiration from the same name’s lonely bright star, standing alone in the position of the snake’s heart in the constellation Hydra.
Mushroom Z, a work for three dancers from Israel portrays a group of people, all different, and their dealing with an urban society, where life is full of temptations, climaxes, ecstasy, routine and downfall, pleasures, hallucinations andmore.
Lighting is the title and also the theme of the German-Vietnamese co-production which sees the performance of five European and five Vietnamese dancers. Igniting a movement in a group of people begins with a small gesture which becomes a great movement – like a fire starting from a tiny spark and burning ever higher.
The British Candoco Dance Company present In Translation accompanied by a piano piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. This piece conveys dance with a new meaning: one of the artists is a wheelchair user.
The festival concludes with the French production petiteshistoires.com. The choreographer Kader Attou and his Compagnie Accrorap play with elements of hip-hop. With humor and acrobatics they build a bridge between the French street art of multicultural French cities and the stage of the dance theater.
The festival is an initiative of EUNIC, the Network of European cultural institutes and embassies in Hanoi, in co-operation with the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNBO) and this year is co-ordinated by the Goethe Institute.
Performances take place at Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theater Hanoi, 11 Ngo Thi Nham street. Free Tickets are available from 19 September at Hanoi Goethe Institute, L’Espace, Japan Foundation, and British Council.
Đăng ký: VietNam News