![]() ![]() ![]() Dancers are wayang orang, “human puppets”, in his show. But dancers must follow the dalang‘s improvised narrative. If the story uses actors instead of puppets, these dancers make their own choreographic choices and, sometimes improvise their own dialogue. He cues the orchestra with taps on the wooden puppet chest. He (or sometimes she) is also responsible for singing mood songs, reciting mantra that safeguard the performance, and infusing humour into the tale. The dalang delivers narration, controls the gong chime orchestra, usually called a gamelan, and normally delivers all the dialogue, as well as moving all the figures. Local theatre therefore depends on a dalang ( dhalang in Javanese), a puppet master/story teller who shapes the overall performance. Traditional theatre is modelled on puppetry which is considered the elder art. The term wayang is usually said to come from bayang (shadow), and shadow theatre puppetry is considered the model for other forms of this puppet, mask or dance performance. Wayang is the traditional theatre of Java, Sunda (West Java), Bali, Lombok, Sumatra, Kalimantan in Indonesia and Malaysia that have been influenced by Javanese culture. ![]()
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