Hundreds of international dancers gather in Hue

Hundreds of artists and dancers from many countries gathered in Hue within the framework of the program "International Dance Festival - 2024".

Performances at the program "International Dance Festival - 2024". Photo: T. Vi.

On the evening of August 17, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinated with the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province to open the "International Dance Festival - 2024".

At the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ta Quang Dong emphasized that the festival is a meaningful cultural and artistic event held every three years to promote cooperation in the field of culture and arts between Vietnam and countries around the world.

The International Dance Festival is also a place where the cultural quintessence of countries around the world converges through the art of dance. At the same time, this is an opportunity for Vietnamese and international dance artists to share experiences in artistic creation; exchange and absorb unique and diverse values ​​of cultural art forms in the period of integration and development.

Presenting flowers to teams participating in the International Dance Festival - 2024 in Hue. Photo: T. Vi.

The International Dance Festival brings together nearly 500 artists and actors from 17 art troupes representing 9 countries: Laos, Philippines, China, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and host country Vietnam.

With the message "Convergence, creativity - Shine together", the international dance festival is where domestic and foreign artists and actors can freely create, bringing all their artistic talents to dedicate to the audience the most unique dance performances.

According to regulations, works participating in the festival belong to genres such as short dances, dance poems, dance suites, short dance plays... in folk, classical, modern styles...

The participating works have high artistic quality, clearly expressing the content, ideas, and artistic images of the work to the public through factors such as: structure of the work, structure of dance language, music processing, character image building, space and time processing techniques, props, and acting techniques for actors. Costumes and makeup are appropriate to the purpose, content, and artistic images of the work, the cultural traditions of each region, ethnic group, and country, and are appropriate to Vietnamese culture.

The festival will run until August 22. The organizing committee will award gold and silver medals to performances of high artistic quality according to the evaluation results of the Art Council.

After the opening ceremony, there was a competition between the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet and the Malaysian dance troupe.

Phuc Dat

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