I just found a few sites about Vietnamese Water Puppets and learned that these performances originated with farmers working in rice paddies and in ponds. The surface of the water acts as the stage and the puppeteers maneuver the water puppets with rods and strings from behind a curtain.
posted by Cecilia @ 9/07/2005 11:50:00 PM
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Thank you for sharing this. I had never heard of this tradition. I think is fabulous!. It seems like a different evolution path related to Bunraku in some respects as far as how some of the larger puppets are controlled. It would be very interesting to see the mechanisms by which they control the puppets, but, alas, that is their secret!
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