JAKARTA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The scene is much like any other Indonesian puppet show: the beat of the gongs is frenetic, the musicians wear intricately-patterned traditional costumes and the puppets ...

A shadow-puppet performance of an ancient Indonesian story and an orchestral concert featuring a setting of four poems by a noted Maine poet will distinguish Bates among local arts presenters this ...

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 what a ...

BOGOR, Indonesia (Reuters) - It's a warm night in Indonesia and the air is filled with excitement as villagers watch a puppet show accompanied by traditional music. To the rhythmic beat of cymbals, ...

For its final installment of the 2019 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host Wayang Puppet Theater of Indonesia: Collective ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — From narrow side streets to packed malls, the traditional ...

Sumarsam, a Wesleyan University professor who had his first experience with Indonesian performing arts as a boy in his East Javanese village, devotes two evenings to Indonesian shadow puppetry this ...

Samsudin is educating the young about the plight of the critically endangered Javan rhino –- the world's rarest –- with puppets on a stick, comical expressions ...

Puppets made out of plastic waste are displayed in a primary school in Mataram on Lombok island, Indonesia August 16, 2019. Picture taken August 16, 2019. Mandatory credit Sasak Puppeteer ...