Saturday, January 24, 2009
Wayang
"Bayang", the Javanese word for shadow or imagination, also connotes “spirit”.
Performances of shadow puppet theater are accompanied by gamelan in Java, and by “gender wayang" in Bali.
“Kulit” means skin, and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully chiseled with very fine tools and supported with carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.
- Indonesian and Malay term for theater
- When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theater, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang
"Bayang", the Javanese word for shadow or imagination, also connotes “spirit”.
Performances of shadow puppet theater are accompanied by gamelan in Java, and by “gender wayang" in Bali.
“Kulit” means skin, and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully chiseled with very fine tools and supported with carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.
Labels: Music, Music of Indonesia
at, 7:35 PM.
