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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Chèo is a very difficult genre to sing. In order to sing beautifully a Chèo tune, especially an ancient tune, such techiques as slurring, vibrato, tempo control are required.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Chèo is a very difficult genre to sing. In order to sing beautifully a Chèo tune, especially an ancient tune, such techiques as slurring, vibrato, tempo control are required.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Chèo is a very difficult genre to sing. In order to sing beautifully a Chèo tune, especially an ancient tune, such techiques as slurring, vibrato, tempo control are required.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Generations of practitioners have made great effort to the development and promotion of Chèo stage art by teaching the way of performing and singing Chèo.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Generations of practitioners have made great effort to the development and promotion of Chèo stage art by teaching the way of performing and singing Chèo.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Generations of practitioners have made great effort to the development and promotion of Chèo stage art by teaching the way of performing and singing Chèo.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Traditionally, musicians had to use drums and small wooden sticks used to beat a small bamboo box for percussion (phách) to produce instrumental music. In modern Chèo, other traditional musical instruments are used to enrich the accompaniment including a flute, a moon – shaped lute (đàn nguyệt), a two – string violin (đàn nhị), a one – string chord (đàn bầu), three – string chord (đàn tam) and so on to depict character expressions in various situations. Any Chèo play or excerpt has to use string musical instruments of all kinds including đàn bầu, đàn tam, đàn tứ, đàn nhị (đàn nhị 1 and đàn nhị 2) simultanously and drums are indispensable.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Dance is also an important element included in Chèo singing to express character emotions and images. Chèo dance is similar to other folk dances in the Northern Delta such as múa tay (dance with hands), múa quạt (dance with a fan), múa gậy (dance with a stick) and so on. Chèo dance language (the way of dancer’s movements) is used flexibly by artists to express different types of character (protagonists and antagonists), which has contributed significantly to the vitality of every Chèo performance.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Dance is also an important element included in Chèo singing to express character emotions and images. Chèo dance is similar to other folk dances in the Northern Delta such as múa tay (dance with hands), múa quạt (dance with a fan), múa gậy (dance with a stick) and so on. Chèo dance language (the way of dancer’s movements) is used flexibly by artists to express different types of character (protagonists and antagonists), which has contributed significantly to the vitality of every Chèo performance.

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province

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Chèo – Vietnamese traditional stage art in Ninh Bình province Traditionally, musicians had to use drums and small wooden sticks used to beat a small bamboo box for percussion (phách) to produce instrumental music. In modern Chèo, other traditional musical instruments are used to enrich the accompaniment including a flute, a moon – shaped lute (đàn nguyệt), a two – string violin (đàn nhị), a one – string chord (đàn bầu), three – string chord (đàn tam) and so on to depict character expressions in various situations. Any Chèo play or excerpt has to use string musical instruments of all kinds including đàn bầu, đàn tam, đàn tứ, đàn nhị (đàn nhị 1 and đàn nhị 2) simultanously and drums are indispensable.