Thang Long Water Puppet Troupe, founded in 1969, is one of the most renowned performing arts groups in Vietnam. It has successfully toured the world, and received the silver and gold prizes at the Hanoi International Puppetry Festival in 2008 and 2010 respectively.

Exclusively built for the coming performance, a waist-deep pool will be located in front of the staircase at the Cultural Centre Piazza and skilful puppeteers will stand in the water to conjure up their tales of traditional Vietnamese life. Accompanied by live music, the puppets will engage in farming, bullfighting, frog hunting, water play and parades, presenting a delightful series of scenes vividly. There will also be Vietnamese “quan ho” folk songs, which have been included in UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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Despite life’s setbacks, a father returns as a young man—
This incredible transformation will surely change our beliefs and values.

A comedy about family values by Japan’s celebrated Tsukuda Norihiko
directed by multi-talented Hong Kong director Roy Szeto

Having just endured his mother’s death, losing his job, and his wife requesting a divorce, a man at the end of his tether brings his father plagued with Alzheimer’s to the bathroom and falls asleep. When he awakes, he finds only his father’s shed skin. The father gets younger by 20 years, and in the following days becomes increasingly more youthful, and the filial relationship is altered forever.

Shed Skin is the work of Tsukuda Norihiko, a popular television drama writer. It is a moving story that brings us closer to understanding modern family and love!

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Looks at the 15-year history of the Legend Lin Dance Theatre and its artistic beliefs through objects, illustrating the dance group’s distinctive approach, now esteemed in a similar way to traditional rituals and rooted in Taiwanese native culture

Imbued with the intensity and spiritual essence of ritual theatre, the dance work expresses its concern for the Earth through the mythical story of a race of eagles.

Members demonstrate the six fundamental principles they use for training the body, and sculpt shapes focusing on different areas of the body while centring their being

The programme transported Korean traditional dance and music to new heights. On the programme are 12 classical works encompassing a range of styles. Seungmu (Buddhist Dance) and Geommu (Sword Dance) are both classed among Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Properties.

Participants gained an insight of how he uses textual materials and narratives to help to develop powerful choreography without over-complicating the relationship between verbal and body language.

Ballet Gala: Sparkling line-up of works from East and West which showcase half a century of the company’s achievement The Red Detachment of Women: Created in 1964, the production became one of the eight “model works” of the Cultural Revolution. It follows the story of a maid who struggles to escape from her tyrannical landlordand, and transform from a peasant girl into a soldier Swan Lake: This adaptation by the legendary Natalia Makarova stays close to Tchaikovsky’s intensely emotional score, beautifully captures the dramatic twists and turns of the tragic tale