Wordless tales require physically expressive actors … or, in the case of “Crane & Turtle: Images of China,” expressive puppets. In the Northwest Puppet Center’s newest show, the highlight is a ...
PHILADELPHIA -- Hua Hua Zhang is on the cutting edge of contemporary puppetry as the founder and artistic director of her company called Visual Expressions. She says she is creating a "new style" of ...
Puppetry is a venerable universal language — and one that “speaks” in many different dialects. Yet often when puppet artists of disparate cultures get together, cultural barriers disintegrate. And new ...
A new show is coming to Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre Saturday to celebrate the Chinese New Year – but “Monkey Goes Fishing” isn’t the latest movie to be brought in to the theater. It is a live ...
Asian Ethnology, Vol. 76, No. 1, Interpreting Sinitic Heritage: Ethnography and Identity in China and Southeast Asia (2017), pp. 117-144 (28 pages) Traditional art forms often face rapid decline if ...