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Ramayana Ballet is the performing arts are wonderful, amazing and difficult unrivaled. This performance is able to unite various Javanese arts such as dance, drama and music on one stage and one momentum to present the Ramayana story, a legendary epos written by Valmiki in Sanskrit. Ramayana story that brought on this show is similar to that engraved on Prambanan temple. Like a lot of legend, Ramayana story carved on the Hindu temple similar to the story in oral tradition in India.

Ramayana ballet

Roads are long and suspenseful story was summarized in four plays or act, the abduction of Sinta, Anoman mission to Lanka, Ravana’s death or Kumbhakarna, and the founding Sinta. All the stories presented in a series of dance movements presented by the beautiful dancers, accompanied by gamelan music. You are invited to actually dissolve in the story and observe each movement of the dancers to know the story. There’s no spoken dialogue of the dancers, the only speaker was Sinden who describes the story through the songs in the Java language with a distinctive voice. (more…)

Popularity: 59% [?]

Night in Yogyakarta will feel alive if you look at shadow puppets (wayang kulit). Gamelan rhythms fused with dynamic sinden melodious voice will not let you sleepy. The story that brought the puppet masters will take you to be late coming in as one of the characters in the story that was delivered. You will soon realize how great of Javanese culture in the past. Wayang kulit is performance art that has been hundreds of years old.

Showing it has its own story, is associated with the advent of Islam in Java. One member of the Wali Songo created lyrics by adopting puppet that developed in the heyday of Hindu-Buddhist. Adoption was done because the puppet already attached to the Javanese to become an excellent medium for spreading the propaganda of Islam, while Islam forbids visual art forms. As a result, created shadow puppets where one can only see shadows. (more…)

Popularity: 2% [?]

Wayang Golek (Puppet show) is one of the distinctive arts of Sunda land. In general, puppet show was traditionally made by residents of certain villages in West Java. Puppet show is currently more dominant as the folk performing arts, which has functions relevant to the environmental community’s needs, both spiritual and material needs.

Wayang golek performace art

That way we can see from some of the activities in the community such as when there are celebrations such as weddings and other, sometimes with puppet shows. (more…)

Popularity: 22% [?]