HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese and Japanese dancers will share the stage in a collaborative performance on November 13 and 14 at the Việt Nam Youth Theatre in Hà Nội.

The show consists of two main parts featuring The Scream of Humanity, an acclaimed dance production that has received widespread praise from Japanese audiences.

The work will be reimagined with all nine members of the Japanese dance group KAORialive fam (K fam), joined by four Vietnamese dancers.

The second part will feature Blue Bird, a new Vietnamese – Japanese dance collaboration making its debut, performed by 11 Vietnamese dancers.

Twenty dancers of the two countries will perform A' closing the show. 

Founded in Kyoto in 2019 by KAORIalive, K fam reached the finals of the World of Dance competition in Los Angeles that year. The group won the Open Division at Chimera A-Side Dance in 2021 and reached the finals of Nippon TV’s The Dance Day for three consecutive years from 2022 to 2024.

KAORIalive also won first prize at Legend Tokyo Chapter 4 in 2014.

Presented as part of the Hà Nội Creative Design Festival 2026, the performance marks KAORialive’s return to Việt Nam for the first time since 2015.

A distinctive feature of the project is that the collaboration began several months before the festival.

Rather than simply bringing a Japanese dance group to perform in Hà Nội, the project involves a shared creative process, with dancers from both countries taking part in auditions, rehearsals and artistic development.

The Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Việt Nam previously organised auditions to select Vietnamese dancers for the project.

The performances will begin at 8pm at 11 Ngô Thì Nhậm Street, Hà Nội. — VNS