Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Wayang (Puppets) - Yobusa.com

Wayang (Puppets)
Puppet is one of the nation?s top arts and culture of Indonesia?s most prominent among other cultures. Include the role of puppet art culture, the art of singing, music, speech arts, literary arts, painting, sculpture, and art is also symbolic. Puppet culture which continues to grow from age to age can be used as a media of propaganda, education, entertainment, philosophical understanding, as well as entertainment.

According to research by historians of culture, puppet is a traditional culture from Indonesia, especially in Java. It was exist since the era before Hindus enter Java. Although the popular puppet story in today?s society is an adaptation of a literary work of India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Both are undergone many changes and additions to adapt it to the original philosophy of Indonesia.

Puppets are played by a man who called Dalang. During the night, dalang playing shadow puppets. He had to change the character of the sound, intonation changed, removing jokes and even sing. To turn the atmosphere, he always helped by puppeteer who plays gamelan musicians and sinden who sing Javanese songs.

There are hundreds characters in puppets. The puppets that are not played in a banana is placed in close proximity to the Dalang. When those are played, the puppets will appear as shadows on a white screen in front of the Dalang. The shadow is created for each puppet show using oil lamps for lighting that helps reflecting the puppets being played.

Each puppet presents a different story or play. Variety of play is divided into four categories: grip play, play carangan, play spin and play writing. The play has a grip on the story entirely sourced library carangan puppet theater while in outline only, which comes on the library puppet. The play doesn?t stem from spin-puppet story but using the appropriate places in the library puppets, while the play is entirely off the essay.

Puppet story rooted in some old books such as Ramayana, Mahabharata, King Library and Purwakanda Purwa. Now, there are also books containing the story and essay composition for hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public Abhimanyu Kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Maling and so on. Among all the old books were used, the Book of Purwakanda is the most commonly used by the puppeteers of the Sultan?s Palace.

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