Wayang kulit

• WAYANG KULIT INDONESIAN THEATER
• Shadow Puppet Theater is a well-known Indonesian theater popular not only in their own country but spread in several countries around the world
• WAYANG KULIT (in Central Java) is one of the oldest continuous traditions of storytelling in the world which includes the use of puppet materials and background musical accompaniment to make it interesting to the audience
• Wayang is an Indonesian and Malay word for "theater".
• When the term is used to refer to kinds of Puppet Theater, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang.
• Kulit means skin and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully-cut into a very fine tools and supported with carefully- shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.
• The audience is the most important person in a Wayang Kulit performance.
• The dalang prepares all the materials used like the cloth and the light for the shadow.
• The puppet on the right side signifies the good character
• on the left hand side, the bad.
• DALANG • is the puppeteer
• Dalang

  is characterized by his being creative, humorous, and flexible
• Dalang

  manipulates the puppets, sings, and taps out signals to the orchestra
• Dalang

  speaks the parts of all the characters
• The use of voice interchangeably is the main ability of a dalang to give more life to a different character.
• Wayang Kulit was performed in royal court and widely performed in public on religious occasions
• The dalang is the chief performer who told a story to the accompaniment of gamelan ensemble.
• GAMELAN Ensemble Wayang Kulit ⚫ is comprised mainly by bronze percussion instruments augmented by other percussion instruments, strings, and a flute.
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  1. Saron -xylophone of heavy bronze bars
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  2. Gender -bronze xylophone with resonance chambers beneath
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  3. Bonang - set of bronze bowls
• GAMELAN Ensemble 4. Gong and Kempul - hanging gongs
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  5. Kenong and Ketuk - single inverted bronze bowl
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  6. Gambang -wooden xylophone
• GAMELAN Ensembl

  7. Rebab -two-stringed fiddle
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  8. Suling -flute
• GAMELAN Ensemble

  9. Kendang -horizontal drum beat with the fingers on both ends
• GAMELAN Ensemble 10. Tjelempung - a zither of thirteen double strings
• The dalang sings the mood songs (suluk) at regular intervals during performance.
• Suluk are never accompanied by the full gamelan ensemble