In modern daily Javanese and Indonesian vocabulary, wayang can refer to the puppet itself or the whole puppet theatre performance. While kulit means skin or leather, the material from which the fi ...

As we're going to see in this programme, our puppet's actual shape is the product of one of the most dramatic religious changes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. While Spain was converting the ...

A traditional form of puppet theatre, wayang has its roots in the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, although it has since spread across the nation’s other islands. Puppets are held up in ...

These Javanese Wayang Kulit puppets are relatively new to the city’s cultural scene, but have quickly become one of the fastest growing artistic movements – along with traditional music and ...

The Watson fellowship (granted by the T.J. Watson Foundation, USA) made it possible for me to spend six months in Indonesia, to study how ancient arts (theatre ... their main income. Wayang Golek - 3D ...

The museum is housed alongside a dedicated puppet theatre, of which there are only ... Judy characters to Indonesian rod puppets called Wayang Golek. Taking centre stage is the Stan Parker ...

On Saturday, Asia Society welcomed puppet master Ki Midiyanto and the Gamelan Kusuma Laras orchestra for an entertaining evening of traditional Javanese shadow puppetry. The unique theater form is a ...

The wayang kulit shadow puppets of Indonesia are such an important cultural and artistic legacy that UNESCO designated the tradition as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.