Cultural Memory and Identity Formation in Performing Arts: The Educational Role of Hue Tuong
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Abstract
Hue Tuong is a royal-rooted theatrical form in the world cultural heritage city of Hue. Drawing on ethnographic observation, practitioner interviews, archival materials, and practice-based analysis, this article examines how Hue Tuong’s bodily practice—especially face painting, costuming, choreographic conventions, and a codified character system—embeds cultural memory and fosters identity formation through education. We employed a qualitative design using field observations, semi-structured interviews with master artists, and archival/documentary sources as the main research instruments. Data collection took place in Hue, focusing on rehearsals at the Duyệt Thị Đường Theatre, festival performances, and practitioner testimonies from the La family lineage. Materials such as photographs, costume catalogues, and training manuals were also gathered. The data were analyzed through thematic coding and semiotic interpretation, identifying how colors, lines, beards, costumes, and movement sequences communicate ethical and social meanings. The findings show that face painting and costumes operate as semiotic codes of morality and rank, choreographic vocabularies serve as embodied pedagogy, and character typologies provide moral models. Moreover, Hue Tuong festivals function as “living classrooms,” revitalizing intangible heritage for youth audiences. Implications are offered for curriculum design, teacher education, and heritage-centered arts programs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".