Vietnam Royal Dances Video
Royal dance is folk dance, which was methodically improved and reached high level. The content is usually about praising feudal king and mandarins’ merits or heroic legends of mandarins and high-ranking civil and military court officials... Court dance is a scholarly and professional art.
There are 10 works of Vietnamese court dance existing nowadays:
- Typical buddhistic dance of Viet ethic group,
- Bat dat dance,
- Longevity wish dance of 3 wandering spirits,
- Longevity wish dance of 8 fairies,
- Guests Welcoming dance,
- Combating and winning Buddha dance,
- The four supernatural creatures dance,
- Woman general’s troops dispatching dance: perform on occasions like triumphal ceremonies, National day, banquets, welcome party to envoys,
- Fan dance: in banquets, marriage feasts of queen, royal concubines, princess,
- Luc triet hoa ma dang dance.
Court dance is accompanied on instruments such as: Bell (bronze), musical stone and bronze, castanet with coins stringed, cymbals, large drum, small drum, one-face drum, cylindrical drum, five of seven stringed lute, Vietnamese two-chord fiddles, Moon-shape lute, kinds of Vietnamese lute, Chinese 4-chord lute, 16-chord zither, horn (horizon), flute (vertical).
(Source: “Mua tin nguong dan gian Vietnam” – Le Ngoc Canh, Social sciences publisher 1998)
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