October 17, 2011
Several ca tru performances are being featured during the art’s national festival in Hanoi on October 13-16. This year’s national ca tru (classical northern chamber music) festival is being held at the Vietnamese Institute for Musicology (VIM) in Hanoi on October 13-16, The Thao & Van Hoa newspaper reported. The festival, co-organized by VIM and [...]
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April 9, 2011
Two more Vietnamese traditions are vying for recognition as UNESCO world heritages. On March 31, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism submitted files on don ca tai tu (southern amateur music) and Hung Kings Temple Festival to UNESCO for consideration as intangible cultural heritages. Don ca tai tu is folk music which originated [...]
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March 30, 2011
Ca tru singer Pham Thi Hue (L) and her teacher, folk artisan Nguyen Phu De, have just released the first-ever ca tru recording in an extensive effort to promote the art The first recorded ca tru album (an ancient genre of chamber music featuring female vocalists) has just been released as part of an extensive [...]
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December 7, 2010
Despite international honors and state investment, Vietnam’s traditional performance arts are losing audiences A performance of tuong, a disappearing form of Vietnamese theater, at the Hanoi-based Vietnam Tuong Theater Every day, five times a day, audiences pack the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater at 57B Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem District. In 2009, [...]
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February 5, 2010
VietNamNet’s Bui Dung reviews achievements in the showbiz world of Vietnam last year. After Hue royal court music and the cultural space of Central Highlands gong, Quan ho Bac Ninh (Bac Ninh love duets) and Ca tru (ceremonial songs) were recognized by UNESCO as the intangible cultural heritage of mankind in September 2009. Quan ho Bac [...]
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November 16, 2009
From November 20-23, the heritage house at 87 Ma May Street, Hanoi, will host tea-related cultural activities. During these days, there will be tea-making performances, talks about poems and culture related to tea, presentations about ancient teas and tea processing in the past and present and how to scent tea with lotus fragrance, led by [...]
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October 30, 2009
More than 250 Vietnamese and Danish artists will join a cultural programme on the occasion of the upcoming State visit of the Danish royal family led by Queen Margrethe. Blending cultures: Danish dance troupe Uppercut will perform in Ha Noi on the occasion of the Danish royal family’s visit to Viet Nam.Under the theme, Young [...]
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October 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The first street art festival will take place in Hanoi from 2.30-9pm, November 3 at the Ly Thai To flower garden, attracting 150 Vietnamese and Danish artists. Denmark’s Batida opera troupe will participate in this festival. The Ly Thai To flower garden will become a “space of art”. The main stage will feature a [...]
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October 17, 2009
A member of the Danish dance ensemble Uppercut in action Ly Thai To Square Garden will sparkle with Danish and Vietnamese vitality when the Hanoi Street Art Festival is staged on November 3. The event is being organized by the Embassy of Denmark, the Peopleâs Committee of Hanoi and the Danish Arts Agency for the [...]
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October 13, 2009
During the day, Vuong Tu Ngoc works as an editorial chief for a TV quiz show; at night she plays phach and sings ca tru working as a ca tru teacher. All-ages show: Ca tru singer Vuong Tu Ngoc (centre) performs with two musicians from Ha Noi’s UNESCO Ca Tru Centre. Singing ca tru has [...]
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