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Wayang golek began using the accompaniment of sinden in the 1920s. Until now the wayang golek continues to develop as entertainment for the community, especially in Sundanese land. 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 ...
Rama and Shinta in Ramayana Ballet performance near Prambanan temple complex Golek Ayun-ayun, a Javanese court dance of Yogyakarta. The courtly Javanese palace dance is the type of dances that developed, nurtured and fostered by Javanese Kratons, mainly Yogyakarta Sultanate and Surakarta Sunanate, the patrons of Javanese Mataram culture ...
This is home to some of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Java and it is likely that the wayang golek grew in popularity through telling the wayang menak stories of Amir Hamza, the uncle of Muhammad. These stories are still widely performed in Kabumen, Tegal, and Jepara as wayang golek menak, and in Cirebon, wayang golek cepak.
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.
Some wayang golek performances, however, also present Muslim stories, called menak. Theories about the origin of theater in Indonesia are divided as follows: Derived from local religious ceremonies. A narrative element is added to such ceremonies which eventually develop into theater performances.
A second battle between Menak Jingga and Damarwulan follows, in which Damarwulan manages to behead the king. Successful, he returns to Majapahit, but the prime minister's twin sons ambush him outside the palace, killing him and presenting Menak Jingga's head to the queen. However, Damarwulan has not died yet, a hermit rescues and revives ...
On November 7, 2003, 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. In return for the acknowledgment, UNESCO required Indonesians to preserve the ...
Picture of Topeng dance performance accompanied by gamelan in Damar Wulan Manuscripts, 1770-1795 AD. A collection of the British Library. Topeng (from Balinese: ᬢᭀᬧᬾᬂ; Javanese: ꦠꦺꦴꦥꦺꦁ, romanized: topèng; [1] Sundanese: ᮒᮧᮕᮨᮔᮌ) is a dramatic form of Indonesian dance in which one or more mask-wearing ornately costumed performers interpret traditional ...