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Cambodian performers bring
traditional music and dance to the Asian Arts Festival, which opened in
Beijing last
night.
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The Asian Arts Festival
kicked off at the Beijing Exhibition Hall Theatre last night in a gala show
featuring artists from 10 countries.
The annual festival, in its eighth year, is organized by China's Ministry of Culture and highlights the diversity of arts from
Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Tonight local audiences will see the traditional dancing and music from
Brunei, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. There will be pop songs performed
by Indonesian and Vietnamese singers and ballet and contemporary dancing by
artists from Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic
relations between Laos and China, the National Performing Arts Company of Laos
will give a special show at Haidian Theatre on Saturday.
Performing arts is just one of the four major components of this year's Asian
Arts Festival and the "Asian Wonders" exhibition is being held at the Yanhuang
Art Museum until September 6.
The exhibition features dyed fabrics and wood-carvings from Brunei, ceramics,
glass ware, bronze products and terracotta plaques from Myanmar, rattan
works from Malaysia, jewellery from the Philippines, pearl shell mosaics from Thailand and Vietnamese lacquer ware and
lacquer paintings.
The China National Museum of Art will also host the Asian Art Museum
Directors Forum, at which, museum curators will discuss contemporary arts in
Asia.
They will share views on how to collect, display and study the works and also
want to promote better communications among museums.
Editor: Xu Shenglan
