![]() ![]() After leaving Massachusetts, I Wan Jan will perform in New York City, and then offer a week of performances and workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I Wan Jan Puppetry Troupe’s Massachusetts tour has been funded, in part, by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture with support from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston and the Taiwanese Film Festival. The San-chih Elementary School Bu Dai Xi troupe, which he coaches, was recently honored as Taiwan’s “Best Elementary School Puppet Troupe” in an island-wide competition. Li Yi Hsien now leads the troupe’s education work. As a way of preserving the Bu Dai Xi tradition, Li Chuan Tsain began teaching puppetry in schools and convinced Taiwan’s Ministry of Education to support student troupes. Yi Hsien learned puppetry from family members, notably his grandfather Li Chuan Tsain, a renowned performer, puppet maker and leader in puppetry education. Li Yi Hsien leads the group’s three puppeteers as they perform all the roles vital to Bu Dai Xi: ‘wu sheng’ (martial artists), ‘chou’ (clowns), ‘wen sheng’ (scholars), and ‘dan’ (ladies). Lyrical songs set the tone for reflection and romance while drums and gongs power martial arts scenes. 1/5 Two Pili puppet characters battle each other, with real fire as a special effect, during a demonstration at their filming studio in Yunlin, Taiwan, February 18, 2022. I Wan Jan’s backstage orchestra includes drums, gongs, a stringed hu-chin and shuo-na - a wind instrument often compared to an oboe. Troupe founder Li Tien-lu said that the success of a puppet performance depended half on the front of the stage –the puppet actors - and half on the backstage musicians. ![]() Li had trained both with his puppeteer father and with Chinese opera troupes in Shanghai and added new styles of music to his shows. He called his troupe I Wan Jan, meaning “like natural,” because he believed that a puppet show could be as convincing as any performance by a live actor. I Wan Jan was founded by Li Tien-lu, grandfather and great-grandfather of four of the troupe’s current performers. ![]() Learn about traditional Bu Dai Xi hand puppetry from Taiwanese and American practitioners, see live and video demonstrations of the style, and enjoy conversation with artists and puppetry enthusiasts from across New England. Their shows continue to be popular, even resulting in the Thunderbolt Fantasy series (2016-2021), a collaboration with Gen Urobuchi that combines Pili style glove puppetry with anime style narrative.Join us for an evening of international cultural exchange with the puppeteers and musicians of Taiwan's acclaimed I Wan Jan Puppet Troupe. Since 1984, Pili has been adding computer animations to their glove puppetry TV shows. A Sea of Puppets is a traditional Taiwanese hand and glove puppet show performed on a beautifully carved wooden stage by a professional ensemble from the. It is curated by Hungarian puppet artist Xu Jiafen (right), artistic director of the Taiwan Puppet Show Center, and Xu Jinbang (left), a puppet master artist, is invited to participate in the 10th Hungarian Puppet Show. In Taiwan Yunlin County is the center of glove puppetry with most major studios having a presence in the county. Taiwan’s Golden Light Puppet Show will represent Taiwan on an international cultural tour. Most of the dialog parts of Wayang Potehi have been narrated using Indonesian and Javanese language. The Shanghai Puppet Theater () is at 5/F 388 West Nanjing Road, Shanghai. The Wayang Potehi tradition is mainly preserved in Central Java ( Semarang) and East Java's ( Gudo, Jombang ) Chinese communities. Today, glove puppetry is called with the term " Wayang Potehi" (Wayang means "puppet" in Javanese). In Java, the interaction between Chinese and Javanese culture gave birth to new style of puppetry, called Peranakan Potehi. Shan Puppet Theatre shows are inspired by traditional Hakka opera, and incorporate Hakka music, culture and history into their repertoire. In Indonesia, glove puppetry was popular within Chinese communities around Sumatra and Java. Shan Puppet Theatre, established by Huang Wu-Shan in 2002, is one of the only puppet troupes to perform traditional Taiwanese puppet shows in the Hakka language in Taiwan. ![]()
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