Artists

Tours
Two puppets looking at the camera, one with a sewing machine and one with a small boat
Yogyakarta
On Tour September 10-October 11, 2025
Compelling, bold, and aware, Indonesia’s Papermoon Puppet Theatre has transformed puppetry the way graphic novels changed comics.
Five men in black shirts, lined up, photographed in silhouette
Peshawar
On Tour July 7-August 8, 2025
Transfixing, hyper-folk jams with rich and deep Pushtoon roots.
A black and white portrait of a man in a black t-shirt holding an oud.
Cairo
On Tour September 20-October 12, 2025
Limitless virtuosity with an unbridled imagination: this oud master musically interprets the boundless world around him.
Two women performing on stage
Lviv
On Tour October 3-November 15, 2025
Affirmation in a time of violence and resistance: Kurbasy channels contemporary connections to an archaic past with its time bending Songs of the...
Past Seasons
Seven people -- four standing, while three crouch down in front -- pose in front of a graffitied wall
La Plata
Season 6: 2022-2023
A black woman poses for the camera wearing brightly colored clothes.
Johannesburg
Season 7: 2023
“Her voice is bigger than mine, but she’s smaller than my trumpet. The last time we invited her she stole the show from us.” – Hugh Masekela With a...
Two men facing each other in profile, each holding a drum stick
Taipei
Season 6: 2022-2023
Hearing Double: Twincussion’s Dynamic, Classically Infused Percussion Spans East and West.
Two women performing on stage
Lviv
Season 8: 2025
Season 4: 2018
Affirmation in a time of violence and resistance: Kurbasy channels contemporary connections to an archaic past with its time bending Songs of the...
JRD photo by Frédéric Thaly
Pétion-Ville
Season 1: 2012
A man next to a woman who is standing on one leg and leaning on another man in a wheelchair
Pingtung County
Season 6: 2022-2023
In “Ice Age” Resident Island Dance Theatre challenges external forces and shows us the potential of a physically, mentally, and emotionally integrated...
Band performing on stage
Bogotá
Season 5: 2022
ISTIJMAM (Actors photo)
Oran
Season 3: 2016-2017
Ifrikya Spirit
Algiers
Season 3: 2016-2017
Five men standing with one woman crouched in front, all looking at the camera surrounded by candles
Lima
Season 5: 2022
Five men in black shirts, lined up, photographed in silhouette
Peshawar
Season 8: 2025
Season 2: 2014
Transfixing, hyper-folk jams with rich and deep Pushtoon roots.
Six people standing together with one man sitting in front
Yerevan
Season 6: 2022-2023
Fleur d'Orange
Casablanca
Season 2: 2014
Two musicians performing on stage with traditional instruments
Addis Ababa
Season 7: 2023
On stage Saada Nassor
Zanzibar
Season 3: 2016-2017
Nan Jombang Dance Company. Image  Fiona Cullen 0068
Padang
Season 1: 2012
Woman standing in front of a brick wall, with an image of a man projected onto it
Lima
Season 5: 2022
A Peruvian documentary maker starts researching corruption in her country but ends up directly involved in the story. Chaska Mori returns to Perú...
Two women in black, one with dark hair and one with red hair, shake their heads in motion in front of a green landscape.
Buenos Aires
Season 6: 2022-2023
hoba square
Casablanca
Season 2: 2014
BelO by Frederic Dupoux
Pétion-Ville
Season 1: 2012
SoK FB photo 1 full band red Ahsan center
Karachi
Season 3: 2016-2017
Two dancers reach outwards towards a white light
O'Kiep
Season 7: 2023
Jogja Hip Hop Foundation
Yogyakarta
Season 1: 2012
A woman stands in front of four other men, posing in front of a large rainbow like structure
Soweto
Season 7: 2023
Music for the people, by the people, with the people. Rebellious, spiritual, and exhilarating, BCUC’s live shows are transcendent rites of explosive...
Zeb & Haniya
Lahore
Season 1: 2012
arabesque
Ho Chi Minh City
Season 2: 2014
Jagwa Music 3, Credit Werner Graebner
Dar es Salaam
Season 3: 2016-2017
Dina Elwedidi 2 Daf photo James Duncan Davidson
Giza
Season 4: 2018
A black and white portrait of a man in a black t-shirt holding an oud.
Cairo
Season 8: 2025
Season 4: 2018
Limitless virtuosity with an unbridled imagination: this oud master musically interprets the boundless world around him.
Three musicians on a stage playing instruments, illuminated by red light
Yerevan
Season 6: 2022-2023
ribab
Agadir
Season 2: 2014
Youssra El Hawary portrait by David Degner
Cairo
Season 4: 2018
Tri Minh's Quartet
Hanoi
Season 2: 2014
Two people standing back to back, wearing traditional Filipino clothing
Lake Sebu
Season 7: 2023
Woman holding an accordion in front of green foliage
Bogotá
Season 5: 2022
Noori
Lahore
Season 1: 2012
Coke Studio Season 4 Episode 3 Sanam Marvi
Hyderabad
Season 3: 2016-2017
Poor Rich Boy
Lahore
Season 2: 2014
TI-COCA & WANGA-NÈGÈS
Port-au-Prince
Season 1: 2012
Arieb Azhar
Islamabad
Season 1: 2012
Democratoz FB in perf photo w flag
Oran
Season 3: 2016-2017
Hard grooving reggae, rai & rock from cosmopolitan Oran Democratoz lays down hard-grooving reggae, rai & rock with all the ecstasy and defiance of...
Seven people standing together with various instruments in front of a large white cliff
Arequipa
Season 5: 2022
Two puppets looking at the camera, one with a sewing machine and one with a small boat
Yogyakarta
Season 8: 2025
Season 1: 2012
Compelling, bold, and aware, Indonesia’s Papermoon Puppet Theatre has transformed puppetry the way graphic novels changed comics.
TseSho, A.Mantach
Kyiv
Season 4: 2018
A rambunctious super-charged puppet cabaret from Kyiv This is the context for TseSho?/What’s That?, a super-charged puppet cabaret of real time events...
Very Live
Karachi
Season 1: 2012