Ancient artifacts, silent carriers of a country's memories and national spirit, offer valuable insights into the appreciation ...

Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...

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 ...

A puppeteer's shadow can be seen behind the stage, manipulating the puppets on the mini-stage. Shadow puppetry originated during the Han Dynasty (140–87 BCE) in China, over 2,000 years ago.

Chengdu, China - October 19, 2024 Chengdu, located in southwestern China, recently hosted a creative display of traditional shadow puppetry on October 19, 2024. The performance took place behind a ...

Shadow puppets flitting across screens and reliving age old stories have fascinated Chinese people for some 2,000 years, but falling audiences mean troupes are having to be creative to stay on the ...

And it's a story that can - almost - be summed up by a puppet, and by the ancient Indonesian art of shadow theatre "Shadow puppets veer dangerously close to idolatry. It's a very, very ...

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. “Wayang kulit”, a ...

The Charles B. Wang Center at SUNY Stony Brook hosted its annual spellbinding evening of shadow puppetry on Dec. 7, featuring the collaborative brilliance of renowned puppeteers Caroline and ...