Saturday, February 28, 2015
Night in Yogyakarta will feel life if you miss it by watching wayang kulit show. Smart gamelan rhythms combined with a melodious voice sinden will not let you fall into sleep. The story that brought the mastermind will bring you dissolve as go in becoming one of the characters in the story are presented. You too will soon realize how great Javanese culture in the past.
Wayang kulit is a performance art that has been more than half a millennium. Appearance has its own story, associated with the influx of Javanese Islam. One member of the Wali Songo created by adopting Wayang Beber that developed in the heyday of the Hindu-Buddhist. Adoption was done because the puppet already attached to the Java so be appropriate media for propaganda spread Islam, while Islam prohibits any form of art. As a result, shadow puppets created where people could only see shadows.
Leather puppet show played by a man who would be called a great entertainer in the world. How not, during the night, the puppeteer controls the entire character actor who is a shadow play puppets made of buffalo leather with motif decorated crafts carving decoration (carved leather). He had to change the character of the sound, intonation, making jokes and even singing. To liven up the atmosphere, the mastermind assisted by musicians who play gamelan and sinden who sing songs of Java.
Characters of Wayang are hundreds. The puppets are not played are put in a banana tree near the puppeteer. When played, the puppets will appear as a shadow on a white screen in front of the puppeteer. The shadow is created for each puppet show use oil lamps as lighting help of the puppets being played.
Each story presents a puppet show or play different. Variety of play is divided into four categories, namely the play grip, carangan play, play and play essay composition. The play grip has a story entirely rooted in the library while at play puppet carangan only outline only sourced the puppet library. The play spin does not stem from puppet story but using the appropriate places in the library puppet, while the play written by purely off.
Puppet story originated from some old manuscripts such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, Library of Kings and Purwakanda. Now, there are also books containing compositions and essays play for hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public Abhimanyu kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Maling and so on. Among all the old books are used, the Book Purwakanda is most often used by puppeteers from Kraton. Leather puppet show begins when the puppeteer has issued mountains. An all-night puppet show in Yogyakarta style is divided into 3 innings with 7 rows (scene) and 7 scenes of war. The first half, called pathet lasem, has 3 rows and 2 battle scenes accompanied gending pathet lasem. Pathet Sanga who became the second half has 2 rows and 2 scenes of war, while Pathet Manura who became the third round has 2 rows and 3 scenes of war. One of the most anticipated part of many people on each puppet is because serving Javanese joke-joke.
Sasono Hinggil located in north central South Square is the most commonly held an all-night wayang performances, usually held every second and fourth weeks starting at 21:00 pm. The other place is the Sri Maganti Ward located at Kraton. Wayang Kulit in the ward staged over two hours starting at 10:00 am every Saturday with ticket USD 5000.00.
