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Uncle Ho s circus struggles in a capitalist world
HANOI: Cut off from funding from the former Soviet Union, the Hanoi Circus, like many other businesses In Vietnam, is turning to capitalism to keep the show going on. according to IPS.
The circu* was put up by the father of Vietnamese communism. Ho Chi Minh, In 1956 two year* after his troops defeated the French colonial army. For decades, the circus survived on Soviet and East European support and aimed to highlight Vietnam's cultural unity.
Although communism Is still Intiict in Vietnam, the circus will soon be using capitalist tool* of the trade and try to diversify support from countries like Cuba and China.
Circus Director Nguyen Tam Chinh Is planning to book foreign circuses and rock bands In her new US one-million dollar circus coliseum designed and financed by the Soviets.
"It has all the features for a live show," says the one-time socialist acrobat who now sounds like an entrepreneurial impresario. The coliseum can also be used for boxing matches, sports events — even conventions and conferences'.
The 1.660-sea ter enclosed amphitheater opened last year at about the same time the
Soviet Union was disintegrating.
Since then. 30 Vietnamese performers have been stranded in Moscow, with their subsidies and training stopped after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The supply of crucial equipment — ropes, trapezes, props — from the Soviet circus has dried up. •
A tour to Yugoslavia last November was cancelled because of the civil war there, while hopes of overseas performances for this year are dashed because funding from the soc ialist bloc has stopped.
"Vietnam Is poor and facing difficulties," admits Chinh. "State subsidy to many enterprises have been cut off." But she remains optimistic. "Our circus has International prospects. *o (the government) pays attention to ft".
Chlnh's circus troupe has managed to pack the new coliseum with a paying audience despite a sagging local economy. Crowds throng to pay 30 cent* to one dollar each to sec the evening show On weekends, when the demand la heavy, tickets are sold at a premium by speculators hanging around the circus gales
The performance* grossed about 10,000 US dollar between last December and February this year, Chinh report*.
The circus still gets support from Cuba but Chinh I* pinning her hopes more on Vietnam's traditional rival, China. The two countries now find themselves In similar political circumstances and have tried to patch up differences.
"China will open up new training opportunities and reinvigorate the old socialist brotherhood," says Chinh.
Vietnam's free-market reforms, growing international trade links with capitalist countries and the anticipated- lifting of the US economic embargo this year are also raising Chlnh's ambitions.
The circus director plans to construct a hotel, near the new coliseum and Is wooing forelgh tourism by sending circus teams to perform In Hanoi's burgeoning embassy row. An increasing number of foreigners now rub shoulder* with senior apparitchiks occupying the coliseum s special scats
The circus's 200 performers, who get about two US dollar each per performance aside from a seven US dollar monthly salary, learned their craft from the Moscow circus. They say their circus Is getting more Vietnamese in Its flavour after losing Soviet direction.
Vietnamese music, choreography, village
games and acrobatics are slowly edging out Russian-inspired routines that are ofter greeted with a puzzled silence from the audience. Explains Chinh: "Our slogan is tg rely on our own strength and to develop oui national identity."
During the war with the United States, the circus often went to the front lines to en tertain troops. While US comedian Bob Hope was amusing marines on the other side, the Vietruyn circus trudged miles along jungle tracks' to perform for Vietnamese guerillas.
"Sometimes, In the middle of a show, US aircrafts would attack," recalls Chtnh, who has been with the circus since 1961. "We would stop and help the soldiers by carrying am munition."
Chinh joined the circus when she was 15 years old and Initially had trouble getting her fanner-parents' permission, but she was soon doing her act of supporting a three woman pyramid.
They said that circus Jobs were not meant for nice girls and all that Jumping prevented a woman from having children." says Chinh, who Is now a mother of two. "But when I told therr that 1 was Joining Uncle Hos circus, they were persuaded "