The art of performing water puppet show lies behind the scene where there are 8 puppeteers stand behind a split-bamboo screen, decorated to resemble a temple façade, and control the intricate movement by long bamboo rods and string. Water Puppet Artists Have to Submerge Their Bodies In The Water During Performance - Photo: longlinkwaterpuppet.vn During festival times at ancient villages in the North, water puppet is also performed on traditional ponds. Water puppetry is now widely performed at theaters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in a pool of water 2 meters square with the water surface being the stage. In the recent decades, water puppetry is coming back to its hey days thanks to the normalization and restless effort of cultural researchers in promoting the image of Vietnam heritage.
Apart from satisfying the entertaining demand of ancient people, water puppetry is somewhat a kind of ritual to satisfy wandering spirits so that they would not cause mischief. Originĭeveloped from the 11th century by villagers in the Red river area of Vietnam, water puppet reflects the real daily life of people, with casual stories from the kitchen to the fishing pond and paddy fields.
Together with eye-catching puppets made of wood and lacquered, water puppet shows are attractive thanks to meaningful stories hidden inside, as well as the secret technique of controlling puppet under the water without seeing anything. Water Puppetry Performance - Vibrant Scene and Sounds From its first appearance in the 11th century until now, water puppetry has always been a unique variation of the ancient Asian puppet tradition.
With over a hundred thousand viewers a year, steady income, frequent international tours (forty countries on five continents by 2010), and government subsidies, this is the major group defining contemporary Vietnamese water puppetry for urban and global viewers.Vietnam water puppetry or “múa rối nước” in Vietnamese is the pride of people living in Red River Delta. Playlets, directed by Nguyen Hoang Tuan and others, are based on tradition: a fox stalks ducks, men fish, dragons appear spouting fire, and Le Loi (a hero who saved the country with a magical sword donated by a mythic tortoise that lives in Hoan Kiem Lake) returns the weapon to this totemic animal of Vietnam. Music has been upgraded, as graduates from Hanoi music programmes become singers and musicians. Puppets are more finely carved than village models. While the technique is traditional, graduates of modern puppetry training programmes largely staff the troupe and techniques are enhanced for modern audiences. Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre offers multiple water puppet performances daily for local and international tourists.
The company moved into their current 400-seat house in 1993. The group began its international tours in the 1980s and this travel accelerated under Le Van Ngo who led the group through the first decade of the 21st century. Later, in 1983, the group studied indigenous water puppetry with village masters, developing a more polished programme. It presented educational programmess for the northern government during the South East Asian War. Now located on Hoan Kiem Lake (Lake of the Returned Sword) in central Hanoi, Thang Long (Flying Dragon) Water Puppet Theatre was founded in 1969 as a company performing rod puppet, glove puppet, and European-influenced puppetry. Vietnamese water puppet company in Hanoi.
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