Sentence examples for cloth puppet from inspiring English sources

Occasionally, gigantic cloth puppet figures appear, including an enormous head that opens to reveal a room where tiny puppets play out a scene.

A much better impression is made by Lior Shvil, whose comic "RoughCut" shows him in a symbiotic if sometimes violent relationship with a life-size cloth puppet of a dark-bearded male figure in a keffiyeh.

In this poignant piece the lively abstract dances performed by Ms. Hayes, Ms. Bueschel, Ms. Haselwood, Mr. Nunley and a tiny cloth puppet created by Basil Twist become metaphors for a spirit that slips away.

In one of his fantasy adventures built around his only playmate, a cloth hand puppet, a quest for a cat proves fruitless.

Perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad if her nemesis, Frankie Cocozza, could either hold a note or get dressed without looking like a cloth Tim Burton puppet – albeit one who's worried that Nancy Reagan might call and want her hair back.

Having Stig represented by a Muppet-like puppet with cloth hands (created and directed by Michael Fowkes) also blunts their interactions.

The pieces range from patterned Kuba cloth to elaborate painted puppets and masks from Mali, all accompanied by a changing series of videos.

Henson wanted to rethink puppetry for television, and one of his major innovations was to construct Kermit not out of wood (like theatrical marionette puppets) but from cloth, which allowed him to contort Kermit's face into a range of expressions, subtle enough for the camera to pick up.

The best-known form of drama in Java is the wayang kulit, the shadow-puppet theater, performed with flat puppets made of leather whose shadows are cast on a white cloth hanging between the puppeteer and the audience.

Ms. Fijan uses faceless puppets made of cloth to teach puppetry to teenagers and adults in the theater set up in the basement of her Great Neck home.

Shadow puppets, so-called because the audience sees only the shadows of the puppets projected on a cloth screen, thrived by sidestepping Islamic prohibitions.