On 4 Aug 2015

Meet & Greet with Nyan Soe Alumni of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts majoring in Sculpture.

Nyan Soe moved into the city Yangon when he was at the age of 13. He grew up in a Chinese Family. Living in Yangon for almost 8 years and he didn’t heard or see any form of Puppetry before in Myanmar. Since he is from the Chinese family, he is not expose to this Art Form.

He added; “I only saw the puppetry performance for only about 5 minutes, however, it was with a tourist group at the hotel in Bagan.”

Opinion from him through chatting, older generation may want the younger generation to preserve the culture and tradition of the puppetry. Even if he is part of the committee or organization of the puppetry, he will want to preserve it as it is.

He even mention that young generation in Myanmar is totally not expose and no hand to the culture and tradition about puppetry. The only way they know about the basic knowledge of puppetry will be from the textbooks.

Should their locals to be more expose to puppetry? How to they make it interesting enough to attract locals?