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• Festivals celebrated in the Asian region


  • Thai Lantern Festival
  • Japan Taiko Drum Festivals
• Offering of lanterns


  Practiced in many Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines
• Use of drums


  Part of the ritual of many Japanese matsuri or festivals
• Japanese Taiko Drum Festivals

  • word kodo could refer to both a 'hearbeat'
• Kodo


  Refers to both "heartbeat" and "children of the drum"
• Taiko Music in Japan


  • Based on a strong tradition that encourages meditation by means of its soft sound or highly energetic sounds
• Kodo group


  • Professional troupe of taiko drummers based in Sado island in Japan
• Kabuki


  A popular theater in Japan famous for its highly artistic showmanship, including costumes and actions
• Kurogo


  Strange-looking figures, clad and hooded all in black, who handle properties on the stage while the curtain is open, and serve as prompters
• Noh Theater


  A very old form of dance and drama at temples or shrines, dated back to the 12th to 13th century, originally performed by the samurai warrior or warrior class as their expression of prayer for peace and long life
• Noh Theater


  • The lead actor is called shite, who could be a deity or god, a holy old man, a good living man, or a spirit
  • The supporting actor is called the waki, who has to be a living man
  • The four musicians play a flute and three types of drums
  • The chorus sit to the left of the stage and assist the shite in the narration of the story
• Wayang Kulit


  A popular theater in Indonesia, part of religious rituals and for entertainment, where the dalang is a well-rounded puppeteer who recites the story and dialogs, manipulates all the puppets, and gives cues to the gamelan orchestra
• Popular types of stories used in Wayang Kulit

  • Stories mainly came from the Mahabharata
  • Islamic tales or local folklore
  • Themes center on the battle between good and evil, the overcoming of disorder after the efforts are made to restore balance and order
• Legong


  A well-known dance-drama in Bali, Indonesia, popular because of the young girls who wear colorful sarongs and flower headdresses, dancing gracefully to the accompaniment of gamelan music
• Kecak


  Named after an old Balinese monkey chant, with a dalang narrating the story while a male chorus produces the "cak-cak" sound of the monkeys, and the Ramayana is also performed in pantomime
• Thai Lanter Festival - is has a take place during the festival of loy kratong in chiang mai.