My dad was the first person to introduce me to shadow puppets. When my sister and I were tiny kids, he would tuck us into bed, turn off the lights and then cast an image of a dog against the wall.

While the art of puppetry covers many quadrants, from characters drawn on hands to string-controlled marionettes to massive puppets which are operated by multiple people, the most mysterious of all ...

THE Cui Yongping Shadow Play Art Museum exhibits shadow puppets. Which is like saying the Louvre exhibits paintings. For here, one can see 15th-century Ming dynasty puppets; 18th-century puppets from ...

The Elephant and the Whale combines different kinds of puppetry with music and panoramic pictures for a unique experience. Have you ever heard the love story about an elephant and a whale? You aren’t ...

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 ...

Never work with children or animals, goes the actors’ maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too. “We’ve got the trifecta right here,” says Australian puppeteer Peter Wilson during rehearsals for “Bali ...

The Wang Center’s theater in Stony Brook University glowed softly as Wrapped Presence unfolded, a spellbinding shadow puppet performance created by Caroline and Madeleine Borderies, with Andre ...