Jia swings her arms, shakes her waist and bounces on her legs to a hip-hop beat as Wang Biao gleefully directs her movements. Using three wooden sticks to hold up and move the two-dimensional ...
Q: Where can we find the traditional shadow puppets in Beijing city? In fact, the small store doesn't major on shadow puppets. But when the shadow puppets collected from around the country, dangle ...
Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FLUSHING, Queens (PIX11) – In honor of the ...
Two warriors in ancient costume fight ferociously. Suddenly, to the dramatic sound of drums a red-faced warrior pulls out his sword before beheading his white-faced enemy. This is not a scene from a ...
Using computer design software and ultraviolet printing technology, Zhang Yuhan and her team have blended 2,000-year-old shadow puppetry with modern technology and popular culture, creating an ...
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 ...
My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet. Dipping the silken brush into a pot of ...
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 ...