World Shadows

Nov 23, 1981
Field:

Performance

 Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Description:

In 1980, Hank Bull and Kate Craig spent a year travelling to Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe to connect with other artists and explore the possibilities and problems of cross-cultural communication. Upon returning to Vancouver, Bull and Craig presented World Shadows, a shadow play that demonstrated new performance and storytelling techniques developed while studying shadow theatre in Bali, Indonesia under master daling I Wayan Wija.
A portable shadow theatre depicts three shadow puppet figures and a shadow puppet chair.
A man and a woman are seated together, a microphone is positioned by their head and a light shines behind them, illuminating their faces.
A puppeteer backstage controls shadow puppets along the portable shadow theatre. A lamp shines on the theatre screen.
A portable shadow theatre depicts two shadow puppet figures and a shadow puppet chair.
A portable shadow theatre depicts a shadow puppet figure and a shadow puppet chair.

Captions:

Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.

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