Vietnamese fusion takes stage in Denmark

Top Vietnamese artists will take center stage in Denmark’s capital city on Monday night at an open air cultural show, due to start on Nytory Square in the centre of Copenhagen.

Vietnamese music is one of the performances in the show Viet Nam, Past and Present which will talke place today in Copenhagen. — Photo courtesy of Danish Embassy

The music will be a fusion of modern sounds and Vietnam’s traditional music including the chèo (traditional opera), xẩm (music performed by ministrels), quan họ (love duet), cải lương (reformed opera).
A highlight of the show will be The Road to Infinity, a concert composed by Quoc Trung and performed by Thanh Lam, a leading Vietnamese diva.
The show will also introduce two Vietnamese dance groups including the break dance group Big Toe and a contemporary dance group from the Military College of Art and Culture. The contemporary dance group will be performing their famed routine Whirling in the Hurricane, which won second place in the Talent Prize Contemporary Dance competition organised by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund in 2007.
Eleven artists from the two dancing groups already arrived in Denmark a few days early to participate in an exchange programme with top dance academies. The exchange was organised by the Danish Centre for Culture and Development.
The five Big Toe dancers will also join a Danish break dance group To The Beat in the ninth edition of the International Break Dance Event (IBE), one of the world’s leading hip hop dance competitions.
With Vietnamese dancers hitting international stages, the trip should help popularize the country’s base of artistic talent.
The performance is part of Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung’s official visit to Denmark from June 9-11.
The show is being co-sponsored and organised by the Danish-Vietnamese Cultural Development and Exchange Fund and Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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