In his opening speech, Tran Huong Duong, Deputy Director of the Department of Performing Arts and Head of the Organising Committee of the 2024 National Circus Talent Competition, said, that the competition is organised to contribute to honouring the values of circus arts and the units, individuals, artists, and actors who have made positive contributions to the development of the country's professional circus stage.
This is also an opportunity for art units, circus training facilities, artists and actors to exchange, learn from each other, find solutions and methods of operation suitable to the situation, and have more works of high artistic quality serving the people in the new period.
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| Tran Huong Duong, Deputy Director of the Department of Performing Arts and Head of the Organizing Committee of the Competition, give the opening speech. (Photo: Trang Anh) |
This year's competition has the participation of nearly 100 artists, actors and actresses from four units, including Phuong Nam Arts Theatre, Vietnam Intermediate School of Circus and Variety Arts, Hanoi Circus and Variety Theatre, and Vietnam Circus Federation.
They bring 20 acts spanning various categories, such as acrobatics, juggling, balance, magic, comedy and animal training.
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| The opening performance of "Female Couple Swing" by Phuong Nam Art Theater. (Photo: Trang Anh) |
The performances of the participating units took place immediately after the opening ceremony and lasted for the evenings of August 10, 11, and 12.
The closing and award ceremony of the competition will take place on the evening of August 13, at the Central Circus, Hanoi.
