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 ...

Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head performance, as part of French Institute Alliance Français's Crossing the Line festival (all photos by Aditi Jhaveri) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shadow puppetry is an art form that requires nothing more than a light source, a surface to project that light onto, and a shadow-casting object that moves between the two. It's also an ancient ...