Source: Chinapost.com
A dance troupe from Laos gives a performance at the Asia-Pacific Traditional Arts Festival, which opened yesterday at the Center for Traditional Arts in eastern Yilan County. (CNA)YILAN, Taiwan -- The eighth Asia-Pacific Traditional Arts Festival opened Saturday at the Center for Traditional Arts in eastern Yilan County, featuring folk music, dance and theater groups from the Mekong River region of Indochina.
Since 2003, the center has presented the art festival every autumn, each year basing its theme on a different part of the Asia-Pacific region, according to a spokesman. Dozens of groups and artists from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand have been invited to present folk music, dance and theater at this year's nine-day festival that runs Oct. 3-11, he added.
Among the folk artists are the Tre Viet Band from Vietnam, Samarm and his Folk Art Ensemble from Laos, shadow puppet troupe Sovanna Phum from Cambodia, Burmese puppet troupe Mandalay Marionettes, and Thailand's famous palace mask dance group of Srinakharinwirot University.
During the festival, a series of complementary exhibitions, demonstrations of making handicrafts and lectures will be held at the center, which is located near the county's scenic Dong Shan Water Park.
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