Night life in Yogyakarta will feel if you miss it by looking puppet. Smart gamelan rhythms combined with a melodious voice sinden will not let you fall in sleepiness. The story that brought the mastermind will bring you enter into a soluble participate as one of the characters in the story are presented. You too will soon realize how great Javanese culture in the past.
Wayang kulit is performance art that has been aged more than half a millennium. Appearance has its own story, related to the influx of Javanese Islam. One member of the Wali Songo created by adopting Wayang Beber who thrives on Hindu-Buddhist heyday. The adoption was done because the puppet already attached to the Java so that it becomes an appropriate medium for propaganda spread Islam, while Islam prohibits any form of art. As a result, shadow puppets were created where people could only see shadows.
Leather puppet played by the so-called public's greatest entertainer in the world. How not, during the night, the puppeteer controls the entire character actor who is a puppet scarecrow made from buffalo skin decorated with motif inlaid decoration crafts (leather carving). He had to change the character of the sound, intonation, making jokes and even singing. To liven up the atmosphere, the mastermind aided by musicians who play gamelan and sinden who sing Javanese songs.
The characters of Wayang are hundreds. The puppets that were not placed in the trunk played a banana that was near the puppeteer. When played, the puppets will appear as shadows on the white screen at the front of the puppeteer. The shadow is created for each puppet show put on oil lamps as lighting the help of the puppets being played.
Each puppet performance presents different story or play. Variety of play is divided into 4 categories: drama grip, carangan, play spin and play a bouquet. The play has a grip that is entirely sourced story in the library while the puppet carangan only outline only sourced the library puppet. The play spin does not stem from wayang story but using the appropriate places in the library puppet, while the play is entirely freelance essay.
Puppet story taken from several old books for example the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Purwakanda Library of Kings. Now, there are also books containing compositions and arrangements that play for hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public Abhimanyu Kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Maling and so on. Among all the old books used, Book Purwakanda is most often used by puppeteers from Yogyakarta Kingdom. Leather puppet show begins when the dalang has issued the mountains. An all-night wayang performance Yogyakarta style is divided into 3 innings with 7 rows (the scene) and 7 scenes of war. The first half, called pathet lasem, has 3 rows and 2 scenes of war accompanied gending-gending pathet lasem. Pathet Sanga who became second half has 2 rows and 2 scenes of war, while the Pathet Manura into the third round has 2 rows and 3 scenes of war. One of the most anticipated part of many people on each puppet is because serving typical Java jokes.
Sasono Hinggil located in north central South Square is most often held the night wayang performances, usually held every second and fourth weeks starting at 21:00 pm. The other place is Sri Maganti Ward located at the Sultan's Palace. Puppet staged in the ward for 2 hours starting at 10:00 am every Saturday with tickets for USD 5000.00.
Title : Wayang Kulit art performances are legendary Javanese culture
Description : Performing arts who have more than five centuries old. Bringing the story of Ramayana and Mahabharata, the night performance into the r...
Description : Performing arts who have more than five centuries old. Bringing the story of Ramayana and Mahabharata, the night performance into the r...
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