Fong and Kaplin’s devotion to reviving shadow puppetry has truly transcended cultural borders, sparking interest in this art form's modern adaptation in U.S. classrooms. Recognizing the ...

Muhammad Dain, 73, a 13th-generation Tok Dalang (puppet master) of traditional Kelantanese Malay wayang kulit, said shifting ...

While the modern artistic interpretations of shadow puppetry and paper-cutting are central to the exhibition, much of the work also reflects on social issues.

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

Togalu Gombeyatta, or “leather doll play” in Kannada, is a traditional shadow puppetry form from Karnataka, where handmade ...

So, with this animatronic shadow puppet show, it will be a new phenomenon ... also tell stories of modern everyday life with their robotic puppets.

But what was a huge Hindu god doing in the streets of modern Muslim Indonesia ... almost - be summed up by a puppet, and by the ancient Indonesian art of shadow theatre "Shadow puppets veer ...

string and shadow puppets in different parts of India. Besides these, there are several new groups of puppeteers who are not generational puppeteers and work with an amalgam of old and new techniques.

"The goal is to translate traditional shadow puppetry and paper-cutting into a contemporary visual language," Zhang says. "By integrating modern aesthetics, the exhibition breathes new life into ...