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A wayang kulit performance accompanied by a gamelan orchestra, between 1862 and 1872. Wayang is the traditional puppet theatre of Indonesia. [6] [7] [8] It is an ancient form of storytelling known for its elaborate puppets and complex musical styles. [9]
A wayang kulit (leather shadow puppet) performance using kelir (thin fabric) as a border between the puppeteer (dalang) who plays the puppets and the audience. Historically, the performance consisted of shadows cast by an oil lamp onto a cotton screen.
Wayang kulit, a style of wayang shadow play, is particularly popular in Java and Bali. The term derived from the word wayang literally means "shadow" or "imagination" in Javanese; it also connotes "spirit". The word kulit means "skin", as the material from which the puppet is made is thin perforated leather sheets made from buffalo skin.
Wayang wang was a performance in the style of wayang kulit (the shadow theatre of Central Java) wherein actors and actresses took the puppets' roles. The first written reference to the form is on the stone inscription Wimalarama from East Java dated 930 CE.
Wayang style is a style of puppetry influenced by the Indonesian wayang kulit, in which human figures and those that are supernatural are depicted as flat and very two-dimensional - hence the name wayang, meaning "shadow" [1]). This style was commonly used in East Java during the Majapahit Empire, which lasted from about 1293 AD to around 1500 AD.
Dhalang plays the wayang.. Sulukan normally refers to mood setting songs by a puppeteer in Javanese wayang ("puppet") performances in Indonesia.The term can also refer to the pathetan pieces played before and after gamelan pieces in a non-wayang context, [1] and to mystical poetry relating to the doctrinal meaning of the term sulook.
Indonesian Javanese wayang kulit shadow puppet. Pandava and Krishna in an act of the Wayang Wong performance. The Wayang show, the traditional shadow puppet theatre of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese cultures, is a rich and ancient art form that showcases several mythological legends such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and many more ...
This dance-drama demonstrates wayang performance due to the movement is adopted from one of the scenes in wayang kulit performance, that is the Perang Kembang scene. [3] The Perang Kembang told about war between kesatria and raksasa. The kesatria has soft and gentle characters, while the raksasa is described as a character who is rough and violent.