For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

Illya Sumanto’s original puppets of female ghosts for her performance in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2024 (all photos Andrew Nachemson/Hyperallergic) KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing ...

Chinese Theatre Works (CTW) performed their shadow puppetry piece “Tiger Tales” on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry (BIMP) in Storrs, Conn.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Malaysian college lecturer Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad hopes to save the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry using 3D-printed figures controlled by robotics instead of people.

By blending curiosity with creativity, Cengiz Samsun has spent the past 25 years bringing the traditional Turkish shadow play Karagöz and Hacivat to ...

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 ...

Fakeha Naeem, Contributing Writer  VCUarts Theatre, in collaboration with Virginia Repertory Theatre, returned with Puppetry 102, the second class puppet related workshops, with Mary Nagler, an artist ...

Reed fused Balinese tradition with Bay Area experimentation, building a globally recognized shadow-theater company.

What happens when you bring together three visionary Bay Area theater creators who have never worked together before? In the case of “Sojourner ZY,” you get a futuristic space fantasy full of liquid, ...