MALAYSIA’S traditional shadow puppet theatre, wayang kulit, stands at a crossroads. Once the vibrant heart of village ...

Almost 80 years after the last performance on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, shadow puppetry makes a comeback.

To better promote shadow plays, Xu founded a shadow puppetry troupe and brought quality productions to the grassroots level.

SHENYANG, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Lingyuan shadow puppetry, a national-level intangible cultural heritage in China, comes vividly alive amid dazzling light and shadow. Movements of the puppets embody the ...

Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play," is a traditional form of storytelling through the medium of flat articulated, elaborately engraved figures. Manipulating them with silken strings and ...

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) ...

“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 ...

I was asked to do shadow puppetry for tomorrow's fun event on the evening of the day before. Without time to research how to ...

This shadow puppet is at least 200 years old and is one of the oldest surviving shadow puppets in the world. It represents Bima the hero of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharata. Puppets like this are ...

As one of China's oldest folk art forms, shadow puppetry — a mesmerizing blend of painting, carving, storytelling and singing — has been inscribed into the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible ...

Never work with children or animals, goes the actors’ maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too. “We’ve got the trifecta right here,” says Australian puppeteer Peter Wilson during rehearsals for “Bali ...