The most popular stories depicted are excerpts from the Mahabarata and the Ramayana, epic poems composed in India thousands of years ago. Wayang kulit are made from stiff thick water buffalo leather.

This is the third part and is dedicated to shadow puppets performance. This part contains the following 12 VCD: - Wayang Kulit Cirebon Laras, 2 discs - Wayang Kulit Cirebon Laras Pelog, 2 discs ...

and the flat leather shadow puppet (wayang kulit) projected in front of a screen lit from behind. Both types are characterized by costumes, facial features and articulated body parts. There's also a ...

Malaysian college lecturer Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad hopes to save the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry using 3D-printed figures controlled by robotics instead of people. “Wayang kulit”, a ...

Adapted from the Hindu epic Ramayana and rich with Javanese influences ... as well as traditional musical instruments and even a few wayang kulit puppets, are now being used for teaching and ...

Wayang Kulit is now a dying tradition in Malaysia. For centuries, a main “trunk” of shadow puppet stories told and played across South-East Asia has been the Ramayana epic,” Dain shared.

KUALA LUMPUR - Concerns over the declining popularity of wayang kulit (a traditional form of shadow puppetry) have driven three artistes to take an innovative approach to ensure the heritage art ...