Wayang Kulit

Wayang kulit is performance art that has been aged for more than half a millennium. Showing it has its own story, is associated with the entry of Javanese Islam. One member of the Wali Songo (disseminator of the first Islamic religion in Indonesia ) Lyrics Click puppet created by adopting that developed in the heyday of the Hindu-Buddhist. Adoption was done because the puppet already attached to the Javanese to become an excellent medium for spreading the propaganda of Islam, while Islam forbids visual art forms. As a result, created shadow puppets where one can only see shadows.

Played Wayang Kulit by a man who would be called the greatest public entertainer in the world. How not, during the night, the mastermind behind the whole character actor plays a leather Wayang Kulit ( puppet ) which represents the puppets made from buffalo skin decorated with motifs results tatah decoration craft (leather carving). He had to change the sound character, changing intonation, issued a joke and even sing. To liven up, masterminds aided by musicians who play gamelan (Javanese traditional music ) and sinden ( singers who accompany the gamelan music ) who sang songs of Java.

 The characters in total amounted to hundreds of puppets. Those puppets being played not placed in the trunk of banana which are near the mastermind. When played, the puppets will be shown as a shadow on the white screen in front of the puppeteer. The shadow is created because each Wayang Kulit (puppet )  show using oil lamps as lighting that helps puppets being played.

 Each puppet brings the story or play is different. Variety of play is divided into four categories: grip play, play carangan, spin and play the play yard. Pakem play has a story that originated entirely in the library while in the puppet plays carangan only outlines are derived from the library puppets. The play does not stem from the spin-wayang story but wearing the appropriate places in the library puppet, while the play is entirely off the bouquet.

one scene in the Wayang Kulit stage

 Wayang Kulit or Puppet stories based on some old books such as Ramayana, Mahabharata, Pustaka Raja Purwa and Purwakanda. Today, there are also books containing composition and the composition of the play for hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public Abhimanyu kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Maling and so forth. Among all the old books used, the Book Purwakanda are most frequently used by the puppeteers of the Yogyakarta Palace.

Wayang kulit performances day and night

Wayang Kulit begins when the puppeteer has issued a mound. An all-night puppet Yogyakarta style divided into three rounds with a 7 row (scene) and seven scenes of war. First round, called pathet Lasem, has three row and two scenes that accompanied the war-gending gending pathet Lasem (kind of java or a gamelan musical accompaniment ). Pathet Sanga who became the second half has a second row and the second battle scene, while the Pathet Manura ( kind of java or a gamelan musical accompaniment ) the third round and the third row has two scenes of war. One of the most awaited part of many people at each puppet is because a typical serving of humor Java .

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