Ballard Institute in Storrs, Connecticut Opens "Larry Reed: Cinematic Shadows": The Museum's First Opening Since October, With an Interactive Display of Replica
STORRS, Connecticut — The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, at 1 Royce Circle, has opened its new exhibition "Larry Reed: Cinematic Shadows," as the institute opened its doors for the first time since October. The Daily Campus, the university's student newspaper, reported the opening on November 9.
According to the report, the opening consisted of a tour of the exhibition led by its curators, Farley Gwazda and Caryl Kientz, and a panel moderated by Matthew Cohen, a professor in the university's Department of Dramatic Arts. Through the interactive portion, viewers can put on recreations of Reed's 3D shadow masks and play with their shadows on a screen, offering a perspective of what it is like to be a live performer during a Wayang performance.
Larry Reed was an American shadow puppeteer and one of the first Western artists to train in Wayang, the traditional shadow theater of Bali, Indonesia. He founded ShadowLight Productions in 1972 and became known for combining techniques from cinema, modern theater and dance into a new method for casting shadows; his best-known works are the 1979 documentary "Shadow Master" and the multimedia shadow theater production "In Xanadu." Reed spent 10 years learning the art form and learned two languages to perfect it; in traditional Wayang performances some characters speak Kawi and others translate into Balinese, and Reed made those characters translate Kawi into English instead. Reed died in March 2026. Kientz, the managing director of ShadowLight Productions, who met Reed in 2008, and Gwazda, Reed's archivist, curated the exhibition together, and Kientz said she hopes it serves as a "living legacy."
来源链接：康涅狄格大学校报《每日校园报》开幕报道（dailycampus.com）： https://dailycampus.com/2026/11/09/larry-reeds-legacy-lives-through-display-at-ballard/
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Source: Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
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Photo: 木偶与影子戏（资料图）。（Wikimedia Commons）|Puppetry and shadow theatre (file photo). (Wikimedia Commons)
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