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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday, April 23, Buffalo’s Nusantara Arts will treat us to a spectacular Sunday afternoon of Javanese shadow puppetry unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. These Javanese ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...