Puppetry is more than just a performance—it’s a timeless art form, deeply rooted in culture, tradition, and storytelling.

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 ...

Puppet films are a niche form of filmmaking that dates back to the 1900s wherein the characters on screen are in the form of ...

Puppetoscope returns to Delhi with films & live leather puppet shows, including an all-night Ramayana act and films that ...

From India to Italy, Mexico to Turkey ... From intricate marionettes, to mesmerizing shadow puppets, each act will transport audiences to a world of imagination, tradition, and artistic brilliance.

The wayang kulit shadow puppets of Indonesia are such an important cultural and ... depicted are excerpts from the Mahabarata and the Ramayana, epic poems composed in India thousands of years ago.

Using shadow and tabletop puppets ... Since the ’90s, Roy has seen India’s puppetry scene expand. She explains that she has seen two major shifts in Indian puppetry. “There is a rise ...

Today's object is a shadow puppet from Indonesia ... but across the whole of India, because he figures in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. In Java, though, this Hindu character came to ...