Indonesian Heritage – Vol 08 – Performing Arts

Indonesia’s vast cultural diversity is exemplified in the endless variety of its performing arts, from entertaining processions and village mask dances to the wayang shadow puppet theatre of Java with stories taken from the Indian epics and the local Panji cycle, from traditional musical accompaniments by the full slendro and pelogtuned gamelan and smaller local ensembles to the wayang wong and royal court patronised dances; from ritualistic seblang and wali dances to Muslim,¬† inspired seudati and golek menak and finally to modern genres of dance, theatre and music.