With puppets, projectors and live performances, Manual Cinema creates surreal movies as the audience watches the process unfold. Video shot and edited by Eric Krupke The black silhouette of a girl’s ...

Masked actors wearing elaborate, feathered costumes manipulated puppets behind a large 15-by-30-foot screen, creating dancing shadows and silhouettes that told an ancient story of love and war. Hamid ...

The curtain hangs lightly, its white surface glowing softly. Behind it, lamps flicker to life, and a unique, resonant singing voice, the hallmark of Hehuang shadow puppetry, begins to weave through ...

The most challenging part, says Williams, is understanding the concept of negative space with the shadow puppets and creating an interesting silhouette. From there, puppets are cut out by hand or ...

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 ...

Wayang Kulit expert Che Mohd Nasir Yusoff said every character in Kelantan wayang kulit is created with its own meaning, ...

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Google marked the Lunar New Year on Tuesday in the United States with a Google Doodle on the search site’s homepage. People throughout most of Asia and across the globe welcomed in the Year of the Pig ...