Nang yai (Thai: หนังใหà¸à¹ˆ) is a form of shadow play found in Thailand. Puppets are made of buffalo hide, while the story is narrated by songs, chants and music. The phrase "Nang Ya ...

Consider, if you will, puppetry as the ultimate handmade art form. Not only are puppets often created by hand, they require human activation. “I think the reason people are so drawn to puppetry, ...

Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play," is a traditional form of storytelling through the medium of flat articulated, elaborately engraved figures. Manipulating them with silken strings and ...

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 ...

A small Indonesian community is celebrating Christmas by performing traditional shadow puppet shows about the birth of Christ as the pandemic shutters most public performances. Founder Indra ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

This shadow puppet is at least 200 years old and is one of the oldest surviving shadow puppets in the world. It represents Bima the hero of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharata. Puppets like this are ...

Every Saturday afternoon, free shadow puppetry shows are staged at the community center of Kangjian sub-district, Xuhui district, Shanghai. Led by Shen Mingquan, the 78-year-old intangible cultural ...

As one of China's oldest folk art forms, shadow puppetry — a mesmerizing blend of painting, carving, storytelling and singing — has been inscribed into the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible ...

Shadows dance across a brightly lit white screen and traditional gamelan music fills the air, as a puppeteer brings an art ...