The second NYS Chinese Lantern Festival includes more than 1,000 lanterns on display, as well as 30-minute performances featuring acrobats, jugglers, Chinese yo-yoing and face-changing.

Bian lian, also known as face changing, is a dramatic art from the Sichuan Opera. During live performances, face-changing masters change their masks in less than a second, without the audience ...

Bian Lian is the ancient Chinese dramatic art of face-changing, derived from the Sichuan opera. The performers wear brightly colored costumes and layers of masks, with each mask reflecting the ...

Kim Woo-suk is one of the few Korean bian lian performers. Bian lian (變臉), or byeon geom in Korean (변검), is an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the Sichuan opera school (천극, 川劇). Bian lian ...

Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, ... Face changing, or "bian lian," traces its history back some 300 years, ...

A Chinese performer has been wowing crowds in Sichuan province with his face changing skills. He Hongqing is an expert in the ancient art which is at the heart of traditional Sichuan Opera. He is able ...