6/4/2023 0 Comments Water puppetry videoTry this out Hanoi street food day tour Music of performance The puppets enter from either side of the stage, or emerge from the murky depths of the water. Up to 8 puppeteers stand behind a split-bamboo screen, decorated to resemble a temple facade, and control the puppets using long bamboo rods and string mechanism hidden beneath the water surface. The wooden puppets used in Vietnamese water puppet shows are handmade and can weigh up to 30 pounds each. A large bamboo rod supports the puppets under the water and the puppeteers are normally hidden behind a screen control them. The shows takes place in a waist-deep pool. Especially, you can’t find realistic movements or sophisticated costumes found at puppet shows in other parts of Asia. The stage and puppets are awash in vivid colors colored lights and a foggy mist over the murky water add to the mystery. Performances occurs on scene like traditional ponds in Vietnam’s villages. Modern water puppetry occurs in a pool of water 4 meters square with the water surface being the stage. Many of the skits, especially those involving the tales of day-to-day living, often have a humorous twist. Short skits also have contents of legends and national history. In addition, stories of the harvest, of fishing and of festivals are highlighted. The theme of the skits tells of day-to-day living in rural Vietnam and Vietnamese folk tales that are told by grandparents to their grandchildren. So it is really a unique harmony of the art, nature and humans. Amidst romantic nature, viewers could enjoy an art form containing soil, water, green trees, clouds, winds with fire and smoke and a communal house with red tile roof. And water puppet stage was in harmony with natural scenery. In the past, water puppet was only performed outdoor, during daytime. They often offered water puppet shows during spring and festivals. The inscription says people performed water puppets in celebration of the birthday of the King.ĭue to natural conditions and agricultural work of Vietnamese people which is closely linked to water, the farmers themselves created the art of water puppetry. It is inscribed on Sùng Thiện Diên Linh Stone Stele placed in Long Ðọi Pagoda, Đội Sơn Commune, Duy Tiên district, Hà Nam province. It has come into existence and developed together with the wet rice civilization since the Hung Kings founded the country.Īccording to the evidence of the art of water puppetry remaining today, this traditional art form appeared under the reign of Ly Nhan Tong in 1121. Puppetry is a traditional stage art form that has long existed of different ethnic groups in Vietnam. You can also see Water puppet show at Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. The art of puppetry developed mainly in the Northern region of Vietnam but it spread all over the country through the years. It is not just a great source of entertainment but also a form of art that needs extreme precision and tremendous practice. Water puppetry is exactly as it sounds – puppets dancing and moving along the water, controlled by the invisible hands of the puppet masters. While Indonesia has shadow puppets, Japan has bunraku theatre with black-clad ninja puppeteers and in the US, people know Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the other members of the madcap Muppet gang, Việt Nam has an 800-year-old art form called traditional water puppetry, remarked Things Asian Press.And water puppetry is a unique traditional art form only seen in Vietnam. Puppetry has existed in many parts of the world for as long as 4000 years. Ticket fee: VND 100,000 Vietnam’s unique Water puppetry
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