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Out of the shadows, a new art Political turmoil gives new life to Indonesian shadow play
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The landscape rushes by, streaks of lime smudged by cloud. The heart
of Java is lush, green and timeless, but this beauty belies truths
that lurk beneath the placid surface of the everyday. This is a society
that has learned to live literally in the shadow of volcanoes.But
tension can spur creativity, and Indonesia's turmoil is producing
an extraordinary upsurge in the arts. Nowhere is that more true than
in Yogyakarta and Surakarta, the twin royal cities of Central Java
and centers of the classical Javanese tradition. A new generation
of artists is ...
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(book reviews)
; ...the tales told in the Javanese shadow-puppet (wayang) theater, specifically the wayang purwa, which uses flat, leather puppets, as presented...essence of Javaneseness. Rather, she wonders whether wayang ever was the dominant expression of a Javanese...
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Pas directing a wayang of its own?, BUSINESS TIMES
; ...obvious that Pas leaders have this fascination about wayang (plays). And the party obviously do not have much love for anything to do with wayang. Foremost was the ban on a cultural legacy, the wayang kulit (shadow play). It was a policy introduced...
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Puppet theater in contemporary Indonesia: New approaches to performance events.(Book Review)
; ...essays on the current world of puppet theatre (mostly wayang kulit and wayang golek) in Indonesia (mostly, but not exclusively...basic cultural geography and vocabulary pertaining to wayang in the Indonesian regions where it is found. This...
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Presidents as punakawan: portrayal of national leaders as clown-servants in Central Javanese wayang.
; The use of wayang (shadow puppets) as a means of conveying...pre-colonial era Javanese rulers made use of wayang performances to disseminate information...colonial powers. (1) Since independence, wayang has been utilised both by those in power...
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Contemporary wayang in global contexts.(Critical essay)
; ...of radical experimentation with the form of wayang until Indonesia's postcolonial era. The same...theories of the uber-marionette with reference to wayang, while Richard Teschner adapted wayang puppets for his unique Viennese puppet theatre...
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 "The Nation (Thailand)")
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ECT: The art of Indonesian shadow plays, NATION
; ...give a lecture and demonstration on ''Wayang: The Art of Indonesian Shadow Plays...Museum this Thursday, starting at 10 am. Wayang uses a dalang or storyteller/puppeteer...archipelago to life. The most venerable kinds of wayang are wayang beber (the recitation of stories...
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Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia: New Approaches to Performance Events.(Book Review)
; ...about Indonesian shadow puppetry, or wayang, in new ways. Mrazek argues in his introduction...standard and authoritative works on wayang remain unquestioned and are simply recycled again by those who view wayang as a static study, object, or text...
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Bringing puppets to life
; "Wayang is entering into a theatrical world of all...both are integral parts of an Indonesian "wayang," a traditional epic told through shadow...Gamelan Institute who was first introduced to wayang in 1971 on a trip to Java when she, at age...
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Indonesia's renowned puppetry hanging on by a thread.(The Dallas Morning News)
; ...life another colorful character of the wayang kulit _ Indonesia's renowned shadow puppets...around the ancient world of the Indonesian wayang. I was 5 years old when I learned how...play the instruments. But although the wayang kulit retains a hardcore following on...
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Pipit Rochijat's subversive mythologies: the Suharto era and beyond.
; ...mythologies popularized by the Javanese wayang shadow puppet theatre. Entitled Baratayuda...that when compared to the richness of the wayang's theatrical effect in performance, the presentation of wayang plot, themes, and characterization through...
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