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| Audiences watch an outdoor water puppetry performance - Photo: Courtesy of Idécaf |
Ha will display over 50 photos with information about the traditional art-form that could date more than 2000 years.
Nguyen Hong Nga has won 21 local and 8 international artistic photo awards since 1988. She releases annual photo collection books every year in collaboration with Hai Au photography club.
According to folk legend, water puppetry had its origins during the dynasty of King An Duong Vuong back in 255BC. But the earliest documentary evidence is from the Ly dynasty in 1121.
Water puppetry is performed at festivals, holidays or Tet using lacquered wooden puppets on a stage made from a waist-deep pool of water. On Monday’s Vietnam water puppetry is a unique variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition and is considered an intangible heritage of Vietnamese people.
In 1992, the municipal Thang Long Puppet Company returned 17 traditional water puppet stories to the stage attracting local and foreign tourists.
