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After being shaped, they polish and paint the wooden puppets in different colours to make them more lively. The fig wood is also easy for artists to chisel it to create a beautiful appearance for each puppet. Puppets are usually made of fig wood that is light and can float on the surface of the water. Water puppeteers stand behind a screen and manage the wooden puppets professionally through the ropes and sticks.Ī successful water puppet show is one that combines the movement of the body of puppets and their parts smoothly and continuously, creating artistic drama. Performing puppets underwater is more difficult than controlling terrestrial ones. As a result, Hanoi water puppetry as well as the Vietnamese water puppet, in general, have become a unique art product of Vietnam. Combined with the effects of light and sound, the artists create vivid and attractive performances.īoth domestic to international audiences also like and are surprised by the talent of artists behind the screen. The water puppet stage is the water surface, and the actors/actresses are wooden puppets. Water puppetry is a unique traditional form of folk theatre art in Vietnam. Website: Features to know about water puppetry in Hanoi Some places to see water puppetry in HanoiĪddress: 57B Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, VietnamĪddress: 16 Le Thai To Street, Pho Hang Trong, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, VietnamĪddress: 361 Truong Chinh Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi, Vietnam

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The highlight of a water puppet show that you will get when watching it: Also, follow us on Instagram and Facebook to keep updated on what’s new and what’s interesting in Hanoi.Here are some introduction to water puppetry and the places to watch water puppet shows for you to choose from. Contact us if you’re interested in a personal street food tour in Hanoi. Well, hope this post was informative enough to help you prepare for a wonderful stay in our city. It tells the story being acted out by the puppets, or give encouragement to a puppet during the show. The background music during the show is a traditional Vietnamese orchestra, which includes vocals, drums, wooden bells, cymbals, horns, “Đàn bầu” (Vietnamese monochord), gongs, and bamboo flutes.īeside the background music, there is also a singing of chèo, which is a form of opera originating in northern Vietnam. Uncle Teu appears as a smiling man wearing nothing but a simple loin-cloth, he starts the show with some welcoming and witty comments on social realities, like corruption. The performance will be initiated by a character called Uncle Teu, the name means ‘laughing’ in Vietnamese. The show is about 1 hour, during which you’ll see 10 most traditional acts that tell the Vietnamese folk tales and the daily life of people in countryside, such as Dragon dance, Phoenix dance, Fairy dance, four holy animals dance, King Le Loi returned the sword to the holy turtle, Fox chases ducks, farming, fishing, and swimming. The puppeteers still stand behind a split bamboo screen, in the waist-deep water, to control the puppets through a system of bamboo rods, which are hidden in the water. Today, you’ll see the show in a theatre, but the water stage and the performance are similar to the one found in the countryside.

The audience would then sit around the fish pond, in the open air, to enjoy the show.

In the last 1000 years, water puppet shows were performed in the countryside, where they built a small house, like a temple, in a fish pond to shelter the puppeteers. The art of making the puppets dance on the water has been our tradition since 11th century, and it began when the farmers tried to entertain themselves in the flooded rice fields. Water Puppet is called “Múa rối nước” in Vietnamese , which means “Making the puppets dance on the water”.