Coming to Ho Chi Minh City, you should enjoy the art shows in the unique art space. You can spend your time watching some of the featured Saigon art and cultural show performances. Through these shows, you will have the chance to know more detailed information about Vietnamese culture, Vietnamese people and their daily life. 

Below are the top 03 Saigon art and cultural show performances favored by local people and tourists. 

• A O Show
• Suong Som Show (The Mist)
• Teh Dar Show
• Palao Show

Let’s find detailed information about each of the shows above!

A O Show

A O Show is one of the Saigon art and cultural show performances that you should not miss. The show is a blend of circus, contemporary dance, and other art types, combining with bamboo performance props on the timbre of 17 ethnic and modern musical instruments. Watching A O Show, you can immerse yourself in Vietnam’s contrasting portrait between the tranquil village and the crowded city. 

A O Show

One of A O Show’s unique features is the performance props made from bamboo, the familiar symbol of Vietnamese’s strength, resilience, and stability. The unique background music by ethnic instruments like bamboo flute, zither, moon lute, and exciting beatbox sound, and the artist’s acting skills, choreography, martial arts, circus, acrobatics bring an eye-catching performance to the audience. Watching the performance, you will have a look at Vietnamese life in the past and present, from the countryside to the city. You can see them through some of these pictures below.

• The basket boat floating on the river
• Young, healthy men conquering nature, pulling the fishnet
• The peaceful fishing village
• Monkey bridge crossing the river
• Crowded streets in the city
• High buildings in the city

Besides, there are many other ou scenes that you can see from A O Show. You can buy the ticket here. Let’s watch the show and enjoy the life of Vietnamese through the performances!

Suong Som Show (The Mist)

Suong Som Show (The Mist) is also among the top Saigon art and cultural show performances you should watch. It is a contemporary dance combined with ballet, showing the soul life of people in the South of Vietnam. 

The Mist Show

Born in 2011, after ten years, Suong Som Show still attracts many audiences. You will feel impressed with the contents, meticulously invested images and props, and the artists’ performances and dances. With more than an hour, the show will bring you to the South of Vietnam’s countryside life through some of the pictures below. 

• The farmer carrying hoes to the field in the early morning
• The good harvests with yellow rice field
• The children chasing each other on the dike
• Wooden clogs, ao ba ba, ao dai
• Giant round incense showing Vietnamese life’s spirituality  

Besides these pictures, the props and the traditional instruments used also contribute to the performance’s success. All of the props are made from simple materials familiar to the South people, such as bamboo, straw, lemongrass tree, etc. On the stage, the traditional instruments are played directly combined with modern effects, creating a real and vivid space. The smooth melodies and actors and actresses’ emotional body languages have portrayed all of the lifestyle, gratitude, computation and selfishness of people in the South of Vietnam. For more information about the ticket fee and performing schedule, you can refer here. 

Teh Dar Show

Like A O and Suong Som Show, Teh Dah Show is also one of the Saigon art and cultural show performances with diverse performing types. Inspired by Highland's culture, the show has received high appreciation from the audiences for its content. The show will bring you to the magnificent wild mountain and forest with thrilling elephant huntings on the contemporary stage. Besides, you will have a chance to see a romantic date under the moonlight of a boy and girl in the Highlands and immerse yourself in the gong and energetic dance of the people here.  

Teh Dar Show

Teh Dar in K’ho ethnic minority’s language means “The circle.” The circle associates with all of the community activities in the culture of all ethnic groups in the Central Highlands, such as buffalo fighting, spirit worshiping activities, praying for good crops, etc. Through this name, Teh Dar show would like to approve the continuation of the Highlands’ culture and tradition. 

Teh Dah Show appeals to the audience by its simple speech and non-linear structures, not in chronological order. Watching the show, you will see the combination of circus, going balance, acrobatic, contemporary dance and live music. The music instrument inside the show includes more than 20 tribal instruments from some ethnic minority. They include gong, drum, Ding Nam, To Rung, etc. 

For more information about Teh Dar show, you can refer here. 

In conclusion, you have just known about the top 03 Saigon art and cultural show performances that you should not miss. Let’s note these pieces of information and prepare for your trip to Saigon!