Larry Reed, a Yale man who speaks five languages and is one of the only Americans who can claim to have mastered wayang kulit, Balinese shadow puppetry, has invented a new style of shadow puppetry, ...

Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head performance, as part of French Institute Alliance Français's Crossing the Line festival (all photos by Aditi Jhaveri) ...

San Diego's Twisted Heart Puppetworks presents the first annual "Shadows Across the Globe" virtual, worldwide shadow puppet festival July 9-11, 2021, with free performances streaming online. In ...

My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet. Dipping the silken brush into a pot of ...

Shadow puppetry is afoot in the darkened lobby of Ent Center for the Arts. A masked puppeteer works quickly, moving projector sheets back and forth and up and down as he stands behind an old-school ...

Wayang Kulit, a traditional form of shadow puppetry, holds a significant cultural heritage across Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. This art form not only ...

Armenian shadow puppetry is a technique whose origins can be traced to the 1300s. The puppet theater group known as Ayrogi has set out to keep this imaginative art form alive. Narek Harutyunyan Behind ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

Traditional performing art forms are very importantly rooted in India's cultural history, social practices and linguistic contexts. One such form is Shadow puppetry, characterized by narratives being ...