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

Have you ever pointed a flashlight at a wall and used your hands to make animal shapes?Shadow puppetry is a classic form of ...

Nang yai (Thai: หนังใหà¸à¹ˆ) is a form of shadow play found in Thailand. Puppets are made of buffalo hide, while the story is narrated by songs, chants and music. The phrase "Nang Ya ...

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 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) ...

Consider, if you will, puppetry as the ultimate handmade art form. Not only are puppets often created by hand, they require human activation. “I think the reason people are so drawn to puppetry, ...

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 ...

Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...

A small Indonesian community is celebrating Christmas by performing traditional shadow puppet shows about the birth of Christ as the pandemic shutters most public performances. Founder Indra ...

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 ...

Tai’an shadow puppetry was brought to Beijing audiences on March 11. Stories such as Baby Tadpoles Look for Their Mother and Wu Song Beats Tiger were performed at the Taishan Shadow Puppets Museum on ...