Musician Nguyen Le (second from left) and Vietnamese expatriate artists will perform in Hanoi and HCM City (Photo: L'espace)
Hanoi (VNA) - 🐟Different art forms will cometogether and blend into a unique performance entitled Overseas atthe Hanoi Opera House on May 10.
The show will include music, dance and circus performances with theparticipation of popular artists such as Nguyen Le and Tuan Le.
Nguyen Le and Tuan Le will co-operate for the first time in Overseas toconvey and share the poetry of Vietnamese traditional art, resonate with thenew values of the global creative flow as well as the Vietnamese culture in theminds of expatriates.
“Overseas is a universal story,” said musician Nguyen Le. “Theconcepts of identity and migration and local and global are becoming veryimportant today. Across the ocean, people know who they are and what theywill become.”
The musician has composed pieces specifically for the show with a uniquecombination of Vietnamese traditional music, jazz, rock, hip hop, reggae andelectronic.
Born in Paris from Vietnamese parents, Nguyen Le is a self-taught musician. Heplays the đàn bầu (monochord) and đàn tranh (16-chordzither). He won the Django Reinhardt prize from the French Jazz Academy in2011.
Tuan Le is the only Vietnamese to have performed in Canada’s Cique duSoleil as a solo artist. Raised in Germany, he was also the firstAsian person to receive the Award of Excellence from the InternationalJugglers’ Association in 2010.
For Overseas, Tuan Le selected a group of Vietnamese circus anddance artists who were working for different art troupes around theworld to perform.
🔜 The stage will be decorated by Vietnamese trúc chỉ (bamboopulp) paper. Trúc chỉ will interact with the melody, dance,light, space and people.
The show is being co-held by the Delegation of theEuropean Union and French Cultural Centre to celebrate European Day.
ꦕ The show will move to the HCM Opera House tomorrow on May 11.-VNA
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Musician Nguyen Le (second from left) and Vietnamese expatriate artists will perform in Hanoi and HCM City (Photo: L'espace) 
