Wayang Kulit

This is one of the arts that exist in Java, is the art of leather puppet show that has been aged more than half a millennium. beginnings of this art has its own story, related to the introduction of Islam to Java. One member of the Wali Songo created by adopting Wayang Beber that developed in the heyday of Hindu-Buddhist. his reasons for puppet already attached to the Javanese to become an excellent medium for propaganda spread the religion of Islam, while Islam prohibits art form. As a result, shadow puppets created where people can only see shadows. tetepi wrong with the way most people see most of them see the puppet from the front instead of seeing the shadow of the puppet.

 
 





The characters in the puppet there may be a whole lot of what now amount to hundreds of puppets now developed a new alias.'re Not playable characters placed in the trunk of bananas in front of the puppeteer. When played, the puppets will appear as shadows on the white screen in front of the mastermind. The shadow is created because every puppet show using oil lamps as lighting that helps reflectivity puppet characters being played by the puppeteers.

Leather puppet played by a dalang, and the dalang of this is a public that could be called the world's greatest entertainer. How not, during the night, dalang the whole character actor playing shadow puppets which are the puppets made ​​of buffalo skin with motifs decorated carving handicrafts decoration (carving the skin). He can change the sound character, changing intonation, removing jokes and even sing. To liven things in a puppet show, the dalang does not own the show, but also aided by a musician who played the gamelan and sinden who sing Javanese songs.

Each story presents puppet or puppet play that berbeda.Cerita sourced at some old books such as Ramayana, Mahabharata, Kings and Purwakanda Library. Now, there are also books containing composition plays and essays are for hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public such as Abhimanyu Kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Thieves and so on. there are some in the art of puppet theater, the play is divided into 4 categories: standard play, play carangan, play spin and play writing. The play has a story that grip entirely sourced in a library puppet plays while in outline only carangan only sourced the library puppet. Play spin the story did not originate on the puppet, but wearing the appropriate places in the library puppet, while the play is entirely written by lepas.Cerita puppet comes on some old books such as Ramayana, Mahabharata, Kings and Purwakanda Library. Now, there are also books containing composition plays and essays are for hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public Abhimanyu Kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Thieves and so on. interesting of these puppets a lot in addition to stories that bring the story contains many elements of our reminder to always do good and not arbitrary, nor the form of the puppet is a very good and have high artistic value. and usually in the show One of the most anticipated lots of people on each puppet is because that presents a typical Java joke-joke. a very entertaining

so when you visit Indonesia do not forget to try watching this puppet arts, hehehe maybe you are very confused by the language in use because the puppet using Java language, very interesting yahh right, 



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