Shanghai Puppetry
Address ： Shanghai Puppet Theatre Co., Ltd.
Address ： Shanghai Puppet Theatre Co., Ltd.
Protecting Organization：
Shanghai Puppet Theatre Co., Ltd.
Introduction：
The Shanghai Puppetry, born in Shanghai, has grown active on the stages of dozens of cities across China and beyond by virtue of its unique style.
The Shanghai Puppetry, drawing upon the fine traditions of various puppet arts in Shanghai, has given puppetry, an ancient genre of drama, a new lease of life on stages at home and abroad through continuous exploration and innovation.
The Shanghai Puppetry is a comprehensive art.
Its exploration of traditional puppetry is characterized by expanded subjects of plays and creative performing and directing arts, fresh choreography and styling and novel production means.
Details：
Shanghai Puppetry
Puppetry is a theatrical form in which performers manipulate wooden puppets from backstage to stage a performance. It was called kuileixi in ancient China. According to historical records, puppets could do acrobatic performances back in the Three Kingdoms period, and puppets had been used to perform stories in the Sui Dynasty. When performing, puppeteers manipulate puppets while acting and singing from behind the scenes, accompanied by music. Puppets are divided by shape and manipulating technique into glove puppets, marionettes and rod puppets. Written records show that there were puppet plays performed in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China period. As Shanghai’s urban economy developed in the early 20th century, marionette and glove puppet plays, primarily traditional dramas, came to Shanghai. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, leftist cultural figures employed modern creative ideas to present Chinese puppet plays adapted from foreign literary works for children. This led to qualitative changes in puppetry from content to form and from creative mechanism to target audience, laying a solid foundation for the formation and further development of Shanghai Puppetry as a style. The Shanghai Puppet and Shadow Play Theatre was built on the Shanghai Red-star Puppetry Peking Opera Company in 1960. It was renamed Shanghai Puppet Theatre in 1964. For decades, Shanghai’s puppet art has developed a style of its own by learning from domestic and foreign stagecraft and inheriting the features of traditional puppets. Built on the rod puppet, it created many novel varieties of puppets, such as horizontally manipulated puppets, cloth-and-iron puppets, Shanghai-style stunt rod puppets, folded paper rod puppets, rod rubber puppets, woolen puppets, line puppets, human-shaped puppets and giant puppets. The Shanghai Puppetry has also created a wide range of plays with a distinct stage performance style and popular among the people, with major breakthroughs in play choreography, puppet design and stage lighting, among other aspects of puppet art in its traditional sense.
*The above information is subject to the official release by the venue, and this platform is for reference only.
Protecting Organization
Shanghai Puppet Theatre Co., Ltd.
Introduction
The Shanghai Puppetry, born in Shanghai, has grown active on the stages of dozens of cities across China and beyond by virtue of its unique style.
The Shanghai Puppetry, drawing upon the fine traditions of various puppet arts in Shanghai, has given puppetry, an ancient genre of drama, a new lease of life on stages at home and abroad through continuous exploration and innovation.
The Shanghai Puppetry is a comprehensive art.
Its exploration of traditional puppetry is characterized by expanded subjects of plays and creative performing and directing arts, fresh choreography and styling and novel production means.
Details
Shanghai Puppetry
Puppetry is a theatrical form in which performers manipulate wooden puppets from backstage to stage a performance. It was called kuileixi in ancient China. According to historical records, puppets could do acrobatic performances back in the Three Kingdoms period, and puppets had been used to perform stories in the Sui Dynasty. When performing, puppeteers manipulate puppets while acting and singing from behind the scenes, accompanied by music. Puppets are divided by shape and manipulating technique into glove puppets, marionettes and rod puppets. Written records show that there were puppet plays performed in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China period. As Shanghai’s urban economy developed in the early 20th century, marionette and glove puppet plays, primarily traditional dramas, came to Shanghai. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, leftist cultural figures employed modern creative ideas to present Chinese puppet plays adapted from foreign literary works for children. This led to qualitative changes in puppetry from content to form and from creative mechanism to target audience, laying a solid foundation for the formation and further development of Shanghai Puppetry as a style. The Shanghai Puppet and Shadow Play Theatre was built on the Shanghai Red-star Puppetry Peking Opera Company in 1960. It was renamed Shanghai Puppet Theatre in 1964. For decades, Shanghai’s puppet art has developed a style of its own by learning from domestic and foreign stagecraft and inheriting the features of traditional puppets. Built on the rod puppet, it created many novel varieties of puppets, such as horizontally manipulated puppets, cloth-and-iron puppets, Shanghai-style stunt rod puppets, folded paper rod puppets, rod rubber puppets, woolen puppets, line puppets, human-shaped puppets and giant puppets. The Shanghai Puppetry has also created a wide range of plays with a distinct stage performance style and popular among the people, with major breakthroughs in play choreography, puppet design and stage lighting, among other aspects of puppet art in its traditional sense.
*The above information is subject to the official release by the venue, and this platform is for reference only.
