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  2. Wayang kulit - Wikipedia

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    Wayang kulit (Javanese: ꦮꦪꦁꦏꦸꦭꦶꦠ꧀ (in the ngoko register)) [1] is a traditional form of shadow puppetry originally found in the cultures of Java and Bali in Indonesia. [2] In a wayang kulit performance, the puppet figures are rear

  3. Wayang - Wikipedia

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    UNESCO designated wayang – the flat leather shadow puppet (wayang kulit), the flat wooden puppet (wayang klitik), and the three-dimensional wooden puppet (wayang golek) theatre, as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003. In return for the acknowledgment, UNESCO required Indonesians to preserve the ...

  4. Shadow play - Wikipedia

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    In Malaysia, shadow puppet plays are also known as wayang kulit. In Malay, wayang means "theater", while kulit means "skin/leather" and refers to the puppets that are made out of leather. There are four types of shadow theaters in Malaysia: wayang kulit Jawa, wayang kulit Gedek, wayang kulit Melayu, and wayang kulit Siam.

  5. Wayang golek - Wikipedia

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    In this wayang golek show, as with other wayang shows, plays and stories are played by a puppeteer. The difference is the language in the dialogue that is brought is Sundanese. The standard and the wayang golek are also the same as wayang kulit, for example in the Ramayana and Mahabharata stories. But the difference is in the character of the ...

  6. Dalang (puppeteer) - Wikipedia

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    The wayang kulit performance by the Indonesian notable dalang (puppet master) Manteb Soedharsono, with the story "Gathutkaca Winisuda", in Bentara Budaya Jakarta, to commemorate the anniversary of the Kompas daily. The dhalang or dalang (Javanese: ꦝꦭꦁ, romanized: dhalang; [1] Indonesian: dalang) is the puppeteer in an Indonesian wayang ...

  7. Indonesian art - Wikipedia

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    Wayang refer to a theatrical performance with puppets or human dancers. When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre is known as wayang kulit, are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali. It has been ...

  8. Malaysian art - Wikipedia

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    Theatrical arts in Malaysia has its root in traditional rituals but also serves as entertainment. Notable Malaysian performing art include ritual dances, dance drama that retells ancient epics, legends, and stories; also wayang kulit, a traditional shadow puppet show. A Kelantanese style wayang kulit (shadow play) that narrated the heroic tale ...

  9. Wayang style - Wikipedia

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    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.