The Balinese wayang kulit

It's really impressive to see the Mahabharat stories being immortalized at such a distant land. in this video Bhima fights with an ogre, his mother, Kunti talks to his servant, Semar.

The fact that they use a live flame -- the flickering of the flame adds a lot of movement to the puppets which the brain then intereprets as emotions -- trembling, say.

Recently, many wayang Balis have better performance with new audio-visual and light technic. It seems teenager tends to get addiction with wayang too.

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The ancient Indonesian art of shadow " Wayang Kulit"

"Wayang Kulit" one of the nation's top arts and culture of Indonesia's mostprominent among the many works of other cultures. Culture puppets includeacting, sound art, music, art said, literary arts, painting, sculpture, and also art omen. Culture of puppets, which continues to grow from age to age, is also the medium of light, propaganda, education, entertainment, philosophical understanding, as well as entertainment.

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