Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ramayana Ballet (Indonesian: Sendratari Ramayana) is a visualization and representation of the epic Ramayana saga, originally written by Valmiki in the Sanskrit language, in a highly stylized dance artform. Ramayana Ballet performance combines music, dance and drama. It is usually performed without dialogue. [1]
The entire Ramayana story consist of four episodes and full story, each night one episode, in four clear night and full moon each month May through October, of which (1) First, the Abduction of Dewi Sita, (2) Second, Hanuman on fire, (3) Third, death of Kumbakarna, and (4) the last, Rama meet Sita.
The dance is based on the story of the Ramayana and is traditionally performed in temples and villages across Bali, Indonesia. [ 2 ] Also known as the Ramayana monkey chant , the dance is performed by a circle of as many as 150 performers wearing checked cloths around their waists, percussively chanting " chak ", and moving their hands and arms.
The Javanese dance drama associated with wayang ' s epic themes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata would have existed by then. Wayang in Kawi ( Old Javanese ) means "shadow" and wong means "human". Wayang wong was a performance in the style of wayang kulit (the shadow theatre of Central Java) wherein actors and actresses took the puppets' roles.
Hikayat Seri Rama (Jawi: حكاية سري رام ) is the Malay literary adaptation of the Hindu Ramayana epic in the form of a hikayat. [1] [2] The main story remains the same as the original Sanskrit version but some aspects of it were slightly modified to a local context such as the spelling and pronunciation of names. Numerous branch ...
The Ramayana (/ r ɑː ˈ m ɑː j ə n ə /; [1] [2] Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam [3]), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other ...
The Ramayana became popular in Southeast Asia from the 8th century onward and was represented in literature, temple architecture, dance and theatre. [162] Dramatic enactments of the story of the Ramayana, known as Ramlila, take place all across India and in many places across the globe within the Indian diaspora. [163]
It is observed through thousands [14] of Rama-related performance arts and dance events, that are staged during the festival of Navratri in India. [196] After the enactment of the legendary war between Good and Evil, the Ramlila celebrations climax in the Dussehra (Dasara, Vijayadashami) night festivities where the giant grotesque effigies of ...