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Vietnamese water puppetry is a variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition [clarification needed]. The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large bamboo rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them.
Water puppetry theatre in Hanoi. Water puppetry is a distinct Vietnamese art which had its origins in the 12th century. In water puppetry, a split-bamboo screen obscures puppets which stand in water and are manipulated using long poles hidden beneath the water.
Chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. It is usually performed outdoors by semi-amateur touring groups, stereotypically in a village square or the courtyard of a public building, although it is today increasingly also performed indoors and by professional performers.
Từ Đạo Hạnh (also known as Minh Không) was a famous monk. He was the chief monk at the temple, a choreographer of traditional water puppetry, an inventor, and also a medical man and mystic in his village. The mystic acts associated with the monk include him burning his finger to usher in rain and curing local people of disease by ...
Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts (Vietnamese: Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is the major art museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and second in the country only to the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi. The museum covers three three-floor buildings which house a collection featuring Vietnamese art works ...
Museum of Vietnamese History; Nam Định Textile Museum; Nhatranglive; Museum of Sa Huynh Culture; Museum of Trade Ceramics; Vietnam People's Air Force Museum, Hanoi; Vietnam People's Air Force Museum, Ho Chi Minh City; Vietnam Museum of Ethnology; Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts; Vietnam National Museum of Nature in Hanoi (Bảo tàng ...
Written by Muppet Show head writer, Jerry Juhl, and directed by Henson, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas follows mother and son as they try to scrape enough money together to buy each other gifts ...
Water puppet theatre in Hanoi Water puppetry ( Múa rối nước ), is a distinct Vietnamese art form which had its origins in the 10th century and very popular in northern region. In Water puppetry a split-bamboo screen obscures puppets which stand in water, and are manipulated using long poles hidden beneath the water.