The wet rice civilization of Northern Vietnam was believed to be the cradle of nurturing this traditional art form.
Let’s join us for a quest to this prevalent yet mysterious tradition. Being closely associated with the community village culture, there’s hardly any other form of art that all Vietnamese can relate to. Phone: (+84.Water puppetry is one of the most indigenous cultural traits of Vietnam. Thang Long (Dragon Up) Water Puppet TheaterĪddress: 57B Dinh Tien Hoang street, Hoan Kiem distric, Hanoi, Vietnam By the way, anyone interested in longer stays in Vietnam, now is the time since the program called visa on arrival Vietnam is well underway, take advantage and enjoy!Īddress: 361 Trương Chinh – Thanh Xuan – Hanoi – Vietnam You can buy tickets, enjoy the water puppetry show in some big theatres, such as Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre in Hanoi, The Vietnam Puppetry Theatre, Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre in Saigon, etc. Where you can watch a real water puppet show in Vietnam? If you’re visiting big cities in Vietnam You only watch the puppets on a water surface. You will see no puppeteers, no machines or instruments, and the poles seem to be invisible because they are hided under water.
The plate is hooked up with a long pole and the puppeteers will use large rods to make the puppets moving.
The puppets act a round wooden plate which can rotate around it horizontal. There are more than eight puppeteers hiding behind a bamboo screen control the puppets. In the show, they all can dance and play a lot of interesting items accompanied by excited music and singing. They also have their own names, which represents for their characters in real life, such as: Uncle Teu (represented for a young, healthy and poor farmer), Dragons (represented for Vietnamese spirits), Fox, Fairies, Ducks, etc. The Vietnam water puppets are designed by the artists and made of lacquered wood. Spotlights and colorful flags adorn the stage and create a festive atmosphere.Ī water puppet show is performed in a pool of water as the stage of the puppets. His introduction is usually go along with a small folk orchestra. Teu, which is a pig-tailed bumpkin, is the character who usually appears at the beginning of the show and introduces the performances. Lion dogs lark like puppies while dragons exhale can smoke and shoot sprays of water at the audience. Besides village daily life, scenes include national history and legends. For the fisherman, it gets the short end (often taking his surprised neighbor by mistake). Fishing becomes a game of wits between the fisherman and his prey. Water puppets bring droll humor to scenes of village,fishing, farming, festival events such as buffalo fights, and children’s traditional games of marbles and coin-toss. The water also gives the best setting for the puppeteers’ content: regular village life. It tells of the regularly living in rural Vietnam and Vietnamese folk tales that are engaging to children through their parents telling. The skits’ theme is rural and has a strong connecting to Vietnamese folklore, it illustrates daily life of Vietnamese farmers (tending buffalo, catching fishes, cultivating,…), communal relaxation (swimming contest, dragon dancing…), or historical legends. It is one of Vietnamese culture significant.
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Water Puppetry is considered to be full of joys, lighting and colors and surprises for the audience.
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