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Water Puppet Troupe
by Group Travel on June 26, 2009
“puppets that dance on water”
Is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. It is considered to have originated in the delta of the Red river in Vietnam in the 11th century, and the art remains highly developed today in this country.
This art form is unique to North Vietnam and only found its way to the world stage in recent years as a result of normalized relations with the West.During the early 1990s the country’s three foremost companies, the National Puppet Theatre
The main venues in Vietnam itself are the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre in Hanoi and the Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre in Saigon.
Water puppetry, an art form unique to Vietnam, is a said to have been inspired by the annual flooding of the Red River delta, when religious statues floating out of the temples gave the villagers the idea of creating a new form of wet season entertainment.
Today, water puppet performances attract a steady audience of tourists than villagers celebrating the harvest in their thuy dinh, but the stories are the same and the crowd is no less appreciative of the magic and skill on show, finding it as entertaining as the peasants have for centuries.
“puppets that dance on water”
Is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. It is considered to have originated in the delta of the Red river in Vietnam in the 11th century, and the art remains highly developed today in this country.
This art form is unique to North Vietnam and only found its way to the world stage in recent years as a result of normalized relations with the West.
During the early 1990s the country’s three foremost companies, the National Puppet Theatre
The main venues in Vietnam itself are the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre in Hanoi and the Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre in Saigon.
Water puppetry, an art form unique to Vietnam, is a said to have been inspired by the annual flooding of the Red River delta, when religious statues floating out of the temples gave the villagers the idea of creating a new form of wet season entertainment.
Today, water puppet performances attract a steady audience of tourists than villagers celebrating the harvest in their thuy dinh, but the stories are the same and the crowd is no less appreciative of the magic and skill on show, finding it as entertaining as the peasants have for centuries.
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