Shadow puppets flitting across screens and reliving age old stories have fascinated Chinese people for some 2,000 ... the past are the bedrock of shadow theatre – a tradition still popular ...

Puppet films are a niche form of filmmaking that dates back to the 1900s wherein the characters on screen are in the form of ...

Nappy's specialty is shadow puppets. He will perform live short pieces throughout the day, in between participants' shows, and close the day with a full-time show starting at 3:00 p.m. People are ...

In a twist The Bard himself would've be proud of, a Javanese shadow theatre is a star turn at the Stratford Shakespeare ...

To combine a personal family saga with the horrifying, not-so-long-ago history of an entire people, and to tell that story onstage, is a challenge for which Syrian-Armenian-American ...

In the surrounding villages, he is regularly featured as an accompanying musician at shadow puppet theatre performances ... property” that allows people from various backgrounds to naturally ...

Today's object is a shadow puppet from Indonesia ... By 1600, most Javanese people were Muslim, but the Theatre of Shadows had been a feature of life in Java long before the arrival of Islam.

Asian Performance, Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia, conducted field research on the traditional shadow puppet theatre, the Wayang Kulit, and is currently finishing up a book on this subject for the ...

One such form is Shadow puppetry, characterized by narratives being passed ... I believe, that epic narratives are also where the gods placed this wisdom. The traditional puppet theatre is ...

Treat leather with a particular process, and it rolls thin as paper. Puppets made of it become translucent, their colored dye shining like stained glass. But it’s still durable — enough to hold ...