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 ...

On Sunday, April 23, Buffalo’s Nusantara Arts will treat us to a spectacular Sunday afternoon of Javanese shadow puppetry unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. These Javanese Wayang ...

School might be out for spring break, but art class is in session for a few Mt. Pleasant residents. During a week-long event at Art Reach of Mid Michigan, a handful of local students spent a few hours ...

Never work with children or animals, goes the actors’ maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too. “We’ve got the trifecta right here,” says Australian puppeteer Peter Wilson during rehearsals for “Bali ...

Mid-November concerts at Bates reflect the diversity and international scope of the arts at the college. In the span of four days, the college’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall presents an evening of ...

A special one-hour Javanese wayang kulit for families and children. Wayang kulit is the shadow-puppet theater of Indonesia. Wayang means "theater" and kulit means "skin," which refers to the leather ...

Audiences can try an afternoon of Javanese-style music and storytelling at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, as Javanese-born musician and storyteller ...

A small Indonesian community is celebrating Christmas by performing traditional shadow puppet shows about the birth of Christ as the pandemic shutters most public performances. The country has been ...

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 ...