{"id":8952,"date":"2011-10-07T08:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T15:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diacritics.anotherwarmemorial.com\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:02:20","slug":"it-takes-a-circus-xiec-lang-toi-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2011\/10\/it-takes-a-circus-xiec-lang-toi-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes a circus: Xiec Lang Toi, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"
From one man’s a dream to a village of a circus. \u00a0In the second part of the series on the Vietnamese circus,\u00a0<\/em>L\u00e0ng T\u00f4i, diaCRITICS guest correspondent Ly Lan Dill speaks with the artistic and creative mind of the production,\u00a0\u00a0Tu\u00e2n L\u00ea, and finds out how he made his dream into the circus.<\/em><\/p>\n [Before we begin: have you heard about our\u00a0subscriber drive<\/a>? Win an iPod and other prizes!<\/em>]<\/p>\n The authors of L\u00e0ng T\u00f4i<\/em> generously agreed to share a long rehearsal to talk about the show, their careers, their thoughts on art and creation, and their upcoming projects. My Vietnamese not being up to the challenge of the double interview, I started with Tu\u00e2n L\u00ea<\/a>, the show’s artistic director, in English and then heard Nh\u1ea5t L\u00fd Nguy\u1ec5n’s version in French. Nh\u1ea5t L\u00fd, the show’s composer and coordinator, talked on behalf of himself and his older brother, L\u00e2n, the troupe’s trainer.<\/p>\n