As the orator, he must also master more than a hundred voices of different characters and their temperaments to help tell the story.Ĥ. He cues the ensemble with the kepyak, a cymbal-like percussion instrument, placed at his feet. The dalang who is also the music conductor enhances the narration of his stories with live music accompaniment consisting of an ensemble of gamelan musicians sitting behind him. A light source which is traditionally an oil lamp hangs above him so that he is able to cast the shadows of the puppets onto the screen to narrate the story to an audience who is sitting on the other side of the screen.ģ. The practice involves the enactment of puppets by the puppet master, known as the dalang, who is most often a respectable male figure and he sits at close distance facing a white screen called the kelir. There are few versions of Wayang Kulit in the region: the most studied and popularly known is the Javanese one and others include the Wayang Kulit Siam of Kelantan, Malaysia and the Nang Taung of southern Thailand, as well as the huge static variants such as the Nang Yai of Thailand and Nang Sbek of Cambodia.Ģ. It is believed to have been introduced to the region from India with the spread of Hinduism as evident from the texts that have traditionally inspired the stories of the Wayang Kulit. Wayang Kulit is a shadow puppetry tradition that is found in maritime Southeast Asia.
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