The Embassy of Spain in Hanoi is adding a Spanish flavor to the capital’s millennium celebration with its “Festival of Dragon” show by Spanish theatre troupe Els Comediants.
The show will be at My Dinh National Stadium on Le Duc Tho Street, Tu Lien District, Hanoi on October 2.
Nineteen Spanish and 18 Vietnamese artists from the Circus Federation of Vietnam will present the show featuring music, acrobatics, dance and spectacular fireworks. It aims to be a great celebration for the people of Hanoi to commemorate their city’s anniversary.
The show “Festival of Dragon” depicts the legend of the birth of the city mixing elements of Vietnamese culture with a Spanish perspective.
It will combine the musical language and aesthetics of one of Vietnam’s most popular dragon legends and the firey Spanish spirit fire to tell about the proclamation of King Ly Thai To in 1010 to move the capital.
The show starts with a dragon waking up after a long sleep and breathing fire into the sky, to create the islands of Ha Long Bay. Then the islands becomes greener and more beautiful waking up other gods.
The centerpiece of the stage will be a big dragon, ten meters wide and ten meters tall. Its eyes can move to express emotion.
Admission is free.
