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	Wayang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wayang is the Indonesian term for puppet, and the term refers to any and all of the numerous varieties of puppetry found in the archipelago.
		Wayang wong is a type of theatrical performance with themes from the kingdom of Jenggala, in which the players wear masks known as wayang topeng or wayang gedog.
		Wayang golek or stick puppets can be used for the same plays as wayang kulit, either performed in the daytime or with some sufficient source of lighting to allow the audience to see the puppets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayang_kulit (2098 words)

	Wayang -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Hindus changed the Wayang (as did the (A believer or follower of Islam) Muslims, later) to spread their religion, mostly by stories from the ((Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families) Mahabharata or the Ramayana.
		Wayang kulit, nowadays made from (Asiatic buffalo often domesticated for use as a draft animal) water buffalo hide, (sometimes painted or dyed) are known throughout Indonesia simply as wayang.
		In central and eastern Java, wayang kulit tells stories of Menak, also known as Amir Hamzah, uncle of the Prophet (Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)) Muhammad; this is sometimes referred to in short as wayang Menak.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wayang.htm (2195 words)

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		One of the oldest forms of dramatic entertainment, wayang kulit is a performance of flat leather puppets in the hands of a mystic storyteller, the dalang, who casts their shadows on a backlit screen.
		Wayang kulit was popular at the court of King Airlangga of East Java in the 11th century.
		Wayang kulit can also be staged in the daytime when the usual screen is replaced by twine tied between two poles or the branches of a tree, allowing the audience to view the puppets directly.
	www.balix.com /travel/guide/chapters/balinese_art/perform_kulit.html (1987 words)

	WAYANG KULIT - Bali Villa Travel Resort
		Since a wayang ku/it puppet is a stylized exaggeration of a human shape, it's really a shadow of a shadow.
		Wayang ku/it is difficult to compete with, it's the cheapest wayang form to present on stage.
		Wayang kulit is often heard on the radio with just the voice of the dalang and the gamelan music.
	www.baliforyou.com /indo9/wayangkulit.htm (249 words)

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		This notion that wayang was brought to Java from India has some proponents, and obviously Encyclopaedia Brittanica is unwilling to make a ruling one way or the other, as there was an absorption of so many cultural elements from India over the first few hundred years of the common era.
		Wayang kulit puppets are made from thin buffalo, deer or cowhide.
		By 1630 wayang kulit had developed so greatly that a king of central Java "…ruled that wajang beber might no longer be used as a medium of performance for the magically powerful play The Birth of Kala.
	www.comm.unt.edu /nonwest/nocher/wayang_kulit.htm (948 words)

	Introduction:
		All these elements of wayang performance interlock closely with each other and have their essential roles to play in order to complete the offering to please their gods and ancestors, as well as to provide entertainment for the people who still live in the world.
		Although most stories of the wayang kulit are based on the Hindu-epics, dalang, who has profound knowledge of both Hindu and Balinese myths and philosophical thoughts, may, according to the context of the special events, compose a play of his own to please the gods and sponsors.
		The wayang kulit puppets, elaborately made in leather, are the iconographic art works, which follow the rules strictly from the Hindu caste system and the indigenous social manners in Balinese society.
	www.public.asu.edu /~jwang2/Juiching/myworks/paper4.htm (3993 words)

	Wayang Kulit Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wayang puppets are made of buffalo's skin, with fine curving and colorful painting.
		Usually, Wayang Kulit is played overnight, from evening to dawn, at the celebration such as wedding.
		I joined "Wayang Kulit Tour" organized by the Japan Wayang Kulit Association(I am a member of the association) in 1986 and enjoyed various traditional performance in Bali, Jogjakarta, and Solo.
	www.harapan.co.jp /english/indon_e/pwayang_e.htm (101 words)

	Wayang Kulit and Wayang Golek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wayang Kulit refers to the shadow play for which flat, intricately carved leather puppets are used.
		Wayang Kulit it is the most important form of the well known shadow theater, and is the second oldest behind the Beber.
		Wayang Golek is said to originate from the Javanese north coast (Pasisir) under the influence of the Chinese puppet theater.
	www.acella.com /wayang.htm (116 words)

	Performance of Wayang Kulit (Leather Puppet)
		Wayang kulit is performed the whole night commencing at about 09.00 PM to 05.00 AM.
		For instance, someone is assigned to be a new rector of a university, to celebrate this occasion the university is performing wayang kulit.
		Before commencing wayang performance, a set of traditional offerings have been prepared with incense burning, a prayer to God Almighty is said in the hope the wayang performance should be conducted safely and the message should be accepted by the audience.
	cornelios.faithweb.com /wayangperformance.html (1661 words)

	Murni's in Bali: Online Shop
		Wayang Kulit performances are sacred and form part of many ceremonies in village and family temples.
		Wayang Kulit has been Bali's cinema for centuries, but it is primarily a sacred matter.
		The first person to describe a Balinese Wayang Kulit performance was Chinkah, a Siamese master of a junk, which landed in Bali in 1846.
	www.murnis.com /culture/articlewayangkulit.htm (2946 words)

	Tarot Wayang Review
		You are at one of the frequent and ever-popular wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performances, on which the Tarot Wayang deck is based.
		In the actual wayang kulit, a dalang, or priest puppeteer, sits cross-legged behind the screen as he manipulates the flat, elaborately carved, painted, and jointed leather stick puppets.
		In the wayang kulit, unlike in the original Indian epics, royalty of the Pandawa (the good guys in the Mahabharata) are accompanied by their loyal clown servants, who play a large role in the performance.
	www.aeclectic.net /tarot/wayang/review.shtml (953 words)

	Wayang Kulit - A Malaysian Shadow Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'Wayang Kulit' or shadow play is an old cultural entertainment using shadows cast by intricately carved puppets in relaying mythical parables of good versus evil.
		The Malay culture is a confluence of cultures, as such the wayang kulit not only depicts scenes from the Hindu epics such as the Ramayana and the Mahabhrata, but also merges Kelantanese folklore with elements from the Ramayana.
		In 1990, the conservative Islamic Pas government in the state of Kelantan prohibited wayang kulit performances on the grounds that the storylines and some rituals are non-Islamic and such shows are limited to only tourists in Kelantan.
	www.abcmalaysia.com /tour_malaysia/wayang_kulit.htm (273 words)

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		Wayang is a Javanese word meaning "shadow" or "ghost" and is a theatrical performance of living actors (wayang orang), three dimensional puppets (wayang golek) or shadow images projected before a backlit screen (wayang kulit).
		A wayang kulit puppet is a stylized exaggeration of a human shape.
		Of the many different style of wayang kulit, by far the most popular is the form practiced in Central and East Java, the most populated island of Indonesia.
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	Network Indonesia - Culture - Arts
		The Pandawa wayang kulit repertory was transposed to the doll-puppet theatre (wayang golek) in Sunda, the western part of Java, and to dance-drama in eastern and central Java (wayang orang) and in Bali (wayang wong).
		Java's spectacular dance-drama, wayang orang, grew out of the strong unmasked dance tradition that is illustrated in reliefs of female dancers carved on the 9th-century Borobudur and Prambanan temples in central Java and that produced the carefully cultivated female group dances of the Surakarta and Jogjakarta courts after their establishment in the 16th century.
		Wayang golek is a performance based on wayang kulit but using doll puppets without a screen.
	users.skynet.be /network.indonesia/ni3001b6.htm (1754 words)

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		The wayang kulit uses two-dimensional puppets made of buffalo or goat parchment- usually between 10 and 30 inches tall.
		In Bali, wayang kulit or wayang parwa performances are in daylight with no screen.
		Balinese wayang kulit or wayang parwa shown in the illustrations above and at right represent what the shadow theatre looked like before the Islamization brought greater abstaction to the representation of the human form.
	vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu /uag/Past-Exhibitions/2004-Puppets-of-India/Wayang-Shadow-General.htm (335 words)

	Culture and Special Events
		Wayang refers to a theatrical performance, whether it be of actors/dancers, puppets, or the shadow images created when silhouetted puppet figures are held behind a back-lit screen.
		This is a shadow play performed by a narrator called a Dalang, who manipulates the leather puppets, the wayangs, to the accompaniment of an orchestra, the gamelan.
		The word wayang is said to stem from Wahyu which means to reveal spiritual inspiration.
	www.indo.com /budgetyogya/wayangkulit.html (220 words)

	Wayang Kulit - a shadow play
		The compelling visual appeal of a Wayang Kulit show might easily be explained by the physical laws and properties of light.
		It is as though this translucent screen with its play of light and shadow is the interface between two realms of existence - a small rectangle in the fabric of the world mediated by the dalang from where spirit beings from other planes of existence impart the wisdom of the ages to mankind.
		Wayang Kulit figures wait in the wings each side of the screen in readiness to portray the constant battle between the opposing forces of good and evil.
	minyos.its.rmit.edu.au /~dwa/WayangKulit.html (2049 words)

	Similarities and Differences: Wayang Forms - Lower Secondary Arts Unit
		Wayang kulit (pronounced why-young cool-it) are perforated leather puppets with movable, jointed arms found in both Java and Bali.
		Wayang kulit are used to tell Indonesian versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata (see the Lower Secondary English Unit The Mahabharata: An Indonesian Perspective on this website).
		Wayang golek (pronounced why-young goh-leck) are three-dimensional wooden rod puppets dressed in traditional clothes and found in Central and West Java.
	www.curriculum.edu.au /accessasia/indonesia/teacher/classrom/wayang.htm (494 words)

	Wayang Kulit – A Spellbinding Media For Storytelling
		In Malaysia, ‘Wayang Kulit’ is most popular in the east coast of the peninsula.
		The stories of the ‘Wayang Kulit’ are traditionally based on the Hindu epics of the Ramayan and the Mahabharat.
		The ‘Wayang Kulit’ is staged during religious festivals and important occasions, such as weddings, births and circumcision.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/may/article101.html (1516 words)

	Gamelan : dance & repertoires
		In a sense, wayang kulit is also a dance, the dance of flat beings.
		Wayang kulit is an art of Malaya too, showing close connections with the Javanese tradition.
		Compared to wayang kulit, the puppets are also on rod and use the same typecasts, shape types and symbolism.
	alek.zipzap.ch /gamelan/dan20eng.htm (436 words)

	Resources - Wayang
		There are various types of wayang, but, in Java, the most important is the wayang purwa, which uses kulit (flat cut-outs of painted leather puppets) whose shadows are projected on a large white screen.
		Wayang purwa makes use of the purwa repertoire: the oldest stories about cosmic events and divine will are represented; the course of events is seen as being predestined, part of a cosmic law.
		n a wayang kulit performance the shadow of the puppets are cast on to a white fabric screen (kelir) in a wooden frame.
	www.semarweb.com /wayang.html (2721 words)

	In Their Hands -A World of Tradition and Beauty
		The finest Javanese wayang kulit are traditionally made of the supple hide of a young female water buffalo, with water buffalo horn for the rods and support stick, and water buffalo bone for the tiny arm hinges.
		This wayang kulit is and was made by Pak Suprih of Wonosari.
		Wayang golek are three-dimensional, painted, wooden puppets from Indonesia, which developed from wayang kulit shadow puppets.
	www.intheirhands.com /puppets.html (1487 words)

	Balinese Wayang
		The wayang or shadow puppet is the most prominent theatrical expressions in Bali.
		In a wayang kulit performance, flat cut-out figures are silhouetted against a translucent, white screen, with a coconut-husk lamp as its source of light.
		These wayang figures are manipulated with rods by the puppeteer or dalang, who tells the story accompanied by a gamelan orchestra and occassional chanting or singing of a singer.
	www.indo.com /culture/wayang.html (245 words)

	Performing Arts in Indonesia (shadow plays [wayang kulit, wayang golek] )
		Puppets of the wayang kulit shadow play are made of intricately carved and colorfully painted leather, while the wayang golek puppets are made of the light but strong arbasiah wood and dressed in batik wooden puppets.
		Both the wayang kulit and wayang golek theaters are operated by the dalang (puppeteer) who manipulates the puppets and makes them "speak" in different voices and accents according to character age and/or sex.
		Wayang golek and wayang kulit performances are accompanied by the Javanese gamelan musical instruments.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/indonesia/pro-performing_arts.htm (418 words)

	Wayang Kulit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pemeliharaan Wayang pusaka dilakukan oleh para abdidalem Dalang Kraton.
		Satu hal yang tidak kalah penting dalam pergelaran wayang kulit adalah sesaji.
		Sedangkan pergelaran wayang yang dikaitkan dengan upacara ritual tertentu seperti dalam upacara Ruwatan dengan mengambil lakon Murwakala harus dilakukan oleh seorang dalang yang sudah memenuhi persyaratan sebagai dalang ruwat, jadi tidak sembarang dalang bisa mempergelarkan.
	www.warintekjogja.com /kraton/wkulit.htm (653 words)

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