: the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows
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: the art of manipulating puppets
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Advertisement Some members in the audience showed up in costume but none could compete with the wondrously weird mélange of butoh dance, shadow puppetry, ghosts of various varieties, nurses seeming straight out of horror films along with models, tormented and otherwise.—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024 Ancient beliefs, values, and traditions If The Bamboo Circus speaks to the grace, elegance and beauty of Vietnam, then so does water puppetry.—Richard Quest, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024 Page’s next challenge was working with the animatronics department to establish how the puppetry would work.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024 Jim was impressed by Frank’s puppetry, but young Oznowicz was still in high school, so Jim hired his performing partner Jerry Juhl instead.—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for puppetry
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