These Javanese Wayang Kulit puppets are relatively new to the city’s cultural scene, but have quickly become one of the fastest growing artistic movements – along with traditional music and ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of ...

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 ...

Javanese shadow puppetry involves distinctive puppets that are art works in themselves. The gamelan orchestra is comprised of between 20 and 40 musicians and is made up of bronze instruments — gongs, ...

But his shape also tells us that an Islamic influence has found its way into this traditional Hindu art. This becomes obvious when I take our Javanese puppet of Bima and compare it to another ...