The 580-suite Alma Resort will host ‘The Stage – Alma Show’ from the 5 July, a cross-cultural collaboration between Vietnamese and Korean creatives, with four daily performances, each catering for up to 400 spectators.
Alma Resort, located on Vietnam’s Cam Ranh peninsula, is staging a show celebrating the country’s rich heritage, traditions and folklore.
The 580-suite resort’s outdoor amphitheatre will host ‘The Stage – Alma Show’ from the 5 July, a cross-cultural collaboration between Vietnamese and Korean creatives, with four daily performances, each catering for up to 400 spectators.
Two 70-minute evening shows pay homage to Vietnam’s ‘five elements of nature’ – earth, water, fire, wood, and metal. The entertainment line-up features magicians, dancers, water puppetry, special effects, a flash mob, Ao Dai fashion show and more.
The spectacle involves audience interaction and opens with dancers bringing the vanquished Champa Kingdom’s ‘Apsara’ dance to life in tribute to the Cham people’s long history with the local area.
The stories behind Vietnam’s five elements are played out across a series of segments. After a short water puppet show underpinned by the elements ‘water’ and ‘wood’, ‘earth’ is depicted by dancers and magicians gathering silks to craft a colossal lotus flower. ‘Fire’ is marked in fiery style, with a magician performing a fire sword show before the dramatic rescue of a dancer in a large cage that bursts into flames. Following a mesmerising Non La (conical hat) dance, a contemporary take on the element ‘metal’ encompasses visual effects during the flash mob and elegant Ao Dai fashion parade.
The Alma Show will be staged twice per night from 6pm and 8pm by 24 dancers and magicians Jacky (Haesung Kim) and Bui Huu Thien under the stewardship of executive directors and producers Jin (Hyukjin Cho) and Terry (Byongkok Jung) of Vietnam-based company The Stage VN.
The Magic and Water Puppet Show, with a 50-minute running time, will take place twice daily from 11am and 3pm. The show includes 30 minutes of traditional water puppetry, by 10 professional puppeteers manoeuvring puppets in chest-deep water, and 20 minutes of ‘magical water-themed illusions’.