Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...

Her work bridges the traditional and the contemporary, ensuring that Wayang Kulit resonates with modern audiences while ...

These Javanese Wayang Kulit puppets are relatively new to the ... Kids will even have a chance to play around with puppet making materials… and everyone will come away with a better ...

Petaling Jaya native Illya Sumanto’s passion for Wayang Kulit goes beyond performances. As a performing arts teacher in ...

In modern daily Javanese and Indonesian vocabulary, wayang can refer to the puppet itself or the whole puppet theatre performance. While kulit means skin or leather, the material from which the fi ...

On Saturday, Asia Society welcomed puppet master Ki Midiyanto and the Gamelan Kusuma Laras orchestra for an entertaining evening of traditional Javanese shadow puppetry. The unique theater form is a ...

The wayang kulit shadow puppets of Indonesia are such an important cultural and artistic legacy that UNESCO designated the tradition as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

A traditional form of puppet theatre ... categorised into two different types: Wayang klitik or golèk - made from wood and three-dimensional Wayang kulit - made from leather and two-dimensional ...