![]() ![]() ![]() The paper also refutes numerous the-ories concerning the relationship between Chinese Shadows and those of the rest of the world. KARAGOZ Co-OPTED 293 the government has intervened in traditional puppetry, enlisting the art to support modernization. Read more about this element on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage website. Southeast Asia may have served as avenues that linked disparate shadow traditions, and some influences were probably not unidirectional. Picture of Karagoz from traditional Turkish shadow play, popularized during the Ottoman period stock photo, images and stock photography. The traditional theatre strengthens a sense of cultural identity while bringing people closer together through entertainment. THE ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, EDINBURGH KARAGOZ SHADOW PUPPETS OF TURKEY INTRODUCTION The theatrical tradition of the shadow puppet where plays are performed using cut-out and painted figures made of wood, paper, leather or metal, projected against a lighted screen seems to be characteristic of the Oriental rather than of the Western world. Once played widely at coffeehouses, gardens, and public squares, especially during the holy month of Ramazan, as well as during circumcision feasts, Karagöz is found today mostly in performance halls, schools and malls in larger cities where it still draws audiences. The puppets are manipulated by one lead artist, the Hayali, who may have one or more apprentice-assistants who are learning the craft by helping to create the tasvirs and accompanying the action with music. The usually comic stories feature the main characters Karagöz and Hacivat and a host of others, including a cabaret chanteuse called Kantocu and an illusionist-acrobat named Hokkabaz, and abound in puns and imitations of regional accents. ![]() The shadow theatre is known to be borrowed from Egypt in the 16th century. Orhan Kurt-Karagoz puppeteer, Istanbul (Turkish shadow puppet theater). Turks known to had enjoyed a long-standing puppet tradition that goes back to Central Asia. A play begins with the projection of an introductory figure to set the scene and suggest the themes of the drama, before it vanishes to the shrill sound of a whistle, giving way to a main performance that may incorporate singing, tambourine music, poetry, myth, tongue-twisters and riddles. Karagz is a form of shadow theatre in Turkey in which figures known as tasvirs made of camel or ox hide in the shape of people or things are held on rods in front of a light source to cast their shadows onto a cotton screen. reproduction of a traditional shadow puppet play in English. The exhibition has opened at Yapi Kredi Museum that one of the most important culture and art center in Turkey and the exhibition can be seen until February 21 at the Beyoglu, Istanbul location. Karagöz is a form of shadow theatre in Turkey in which figures known as tasvirs made of camel or ox hide in the shape of people or things are held on rods in front of a light source to cast their shadows onto a cotton screen. A new exhibition amidst the pandemic focuses on the traditional Turkish shadow puppet Karagoz and his cohorts. ![]()
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