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"Will Leave you spellbound."

— Time Out Paris (France)

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Ingeniously employing super-sized rattan baskets and bamboo poles, this innovative circus-based show combines cultural metamorphosis, humour, and dazzling artistry to depict the rapid evolution of serene Vietnamese rural existence into frenetic urban life. Along with juggling, spinning, and daring aerial displays, the electrifying acrobats turn themselves into Mekong River creatures, rapidly construct and deconstruct markets, and build moon-lit homes before traditional scenes and sounds give way to contemporary city pursuits in fast-developing Vietnam.

The director Tuan Le, moved to Germany and started to tour internationally as a juggler at the age of 14, is the first solo artist of Vietnamese descent to have appeared in the world-famous Cirque du Soleil. À Ố Làng Phố immaculately merges acrobatics, contortionism, martial arts, dance, and comic moments with Vietnamese folk opera (cải lương) and modern stage design. In doing so, its aesthetic vision of the Vietnamese circus genre simultaneously takes the creative form to new heights and wider audiences. Popular around the world, the show has been enthusiastically received in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, among other countries.

Related Info

• Children under the age of 3 will not be admitted
• Performers have been professionally trained to accomplish the feats performed in the show. Audience members are advised not to imitate their acts

Photo credit: Nguyen The Duong