Photo: Kingorama presents “Song of the North” Created and Directed by Hamid Rahmanian Produced by Melissa Hibbard Written by Hamid Rahmanian and Melissa Hibbard Original Music by Ramin Torkian and Azam Ali Puppet design by Saba Niknam and Hamid Rahmanian Digital animation by Hoda Ramy Puppets made by Neda Kazemifar Additional creative support by Syd Fini, Parisa Harandi, Negin Keyhanfar, Shuhei Matsuyama, Ahmad SadriInvited Dress Rehearsal Photographed: Friday, October 29, 2021; 9:15 AM at the BAM Fisher (Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC; Photograph: © 2021 RICHARD TERMINE PHOTO CREDIT - RICHARD TERMINE

LEWISBURG — The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome a contemporary puppetry/shadow puppetry ensemble, Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center.

The runtime for the performance is 80 minutes without an intermission and is suggested for ages 7+.

Song of the North is a large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia, who must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved from a perilous predicament and help prevent a war.

This epic love story employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers, all of which come together to create a spectacular experience that advances the themes of unity, collaboration and experimentation through performance and story.

Song of the North, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), challenges the Eurocentric worldview of art and storytelling through a contemporary multimedia experience of this classic Persian tale.

The performance is sponsored, in part, by Adriana Rojas and family in memory of Andrew.