VietNamNet Bridge – A degree on art performing activities will be submitted to the government for consideration and approval in the third quarter 2011.

 

Experts met in Hanoi earlier this week to consider and contribute opinions to the draft degree.

 

At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Tien Tho, said “management of performing clothes, hairstyles, etc. of artists had been discussed at the National Assembly several times. At present, artists still control their costumes, styles, etc. by themselves.” Tho said, that it is necessary to manage artist’s clothes through censorship of art shows.

 

The official said that the Performing Art Agency, which licenses art shows, is responsible to ask artists to wear costumes that are suitable to Vietnam’s habits and customs.

 

Deputy Minister Tho said, that it is needed to ban artists from wearing performing clothes which are so sexy and expose their bodies a lot. However, it is very difficult to legalize how short and how revealing clothes that artists are allowed to wear on the stage, so this is the responsibility of show licensing agency to remind artists of their behaviors.

 

Tho emphasized that cultural inspectors must strengthen their activities. Local departments of culture must inspection shows after granting licenses.

 

Do Manh Hung, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture-Sports-Tourism of Hung Yen province, said that it is the time to control artist’s performing costumes, but it must depend on each show and the place where the show is performed.

 

“There are dances that require dancers to wear short and revealing clothes, or if Vietnamese artists perform in an international music show, we can’t ask them to wear clothes up to Vietnam’s customs and habits,” Hung said.

 

According to Hung, there is a fact that provincial departments of culture, which grant licenses for art shows, only pay attention to the contents of art shows, not the costumes of artists.

 

Hung also said, that to get show licenses, show organizers must introduce the entire show to censors, but they often change the show details after that.

 

PV