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 ...

Shadow puppet artist Zhang Kui makes shadow puppets at home in Tianjin, North China, June 5, 2016. Zhang Kui, who was born in 1937, is now an inheritor of shadow puppets. He has depended on performing ...

Touring bands are a dime a dozen. When you’re a working musician, it’s expected that at some point you’ll go out and hit the dusty trail. For performance artists, that’s a different story entirely.

She’s taking her secrets to the graves. A spooky puppet show in Williamsburg will explore the shadowy after-hours world of Green-Wood Cemetery. “Secrets of Green-Wood,” debuting at the Brick Theater ...

Editor's note: China's shadow puppetry is a form of theater. It uses silhouette figures made from leather or paper to perform traditional plays against an illuminated cloth screen. It was inscribed on ...

HALLOWEEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO SPOOKY SEASON? THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES TO THE BIG EVENT AND WE’RE TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER. MARQUISE MEDA SHOWS US HOW AN ANCIENT FORM OF ...

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 ...

An Emmy Award-winning performance collective is making a second appearance at the Spoleto Festival since being founded back in 2010. Manual Cinema has been an innovative force in the shadow puppet ...

Shadows. They’re ghoulish entities that come and goes with the whims of the sun. But shadow puppets are what happens when Man harnesses the sun, or artificial light, and creates life of his own. Take ...

A Chinese shadow puppetry show was staged in Huining, Gansu province, last week. Shadow puppetry was popular during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and Song Dynasty (960-1279) in many parts of the country.