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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]
Wayang kulit is a unique form of theatre employing light and shadow. The puppets are crafted from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. When held up behind a ...
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 ...
Indonesian Javanese wayang kulit shadow puppet. 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 ...
Panakawan (right) accompanied their masters in a traditional wayang wong theater performance in Yogyakarta. September 1923. Panakawan in wayang kulit, from left to right: Bagong, Petruk, Gareng, and Semar. In Javanese wayang, the panakawan (Javanese: ꦥꦤꦏꦮꦤ꧀) [1] or punakawan (ꦥꦸꦤꦏꦮꦤ꧀) [2] are the
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.
'tree') [2] or kayonan in Bali, is a figure in the Indonesian theatrical performance of wayang e.g. wayang kulit, wayang klitik, wayang golek, and wayang beber. The gunungan is a conical or triangular structure (tapered peak) inspired by the shape of a mountain .
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.