Mesmerising: Pak Cu taking his audience on a journey of rich storytelling. One of my favourite Muzium Negara exhibits as a child was the flat-as-pancakes wayang kulit puppets depicting dramatic ...

Visitors viewing some of the wayang kulit pieces crafted by the team at Fusion Wayang Kulit gallery in GMBB in Kuala Lumpur. CONCERNS over the declining popularity of wayang kulit, Malaysia’s ...

When you think of wayang kulit (shadow puppet performance), you probably imagine a shadow puppet performance telling traditional stories, like tales from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. But in Malaysia, ...

Wayang kulit expert Che Mohd Nasir Yusoff, better known as Pak Nasir, says the stories of shadow puppetry mirror the many shades of human behaviour. (Bernama pic) Beyond the silhouettes of puppets ...

THE timeless shadows of Wayang Kulit are about to flicker with a new kind of fire. For the first time ever, Wayang Women, the world’s first multinational all-female Wayang Kulit troupe, will bring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young apprentice: In Javanese, the word wayang means, “shadow” and kulit, “leather.” Before a piece of “leather” is turned into a ...

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 ...

There's a piece of Southeast Asian culture in the new "Star Trek" series The traditional puppet-shadow play, wayang kulit, has been featured in the new "Star Trek: Discovery" TV series which premiered ...

n international festival featuring wayang kulit (shadow puppets) dubbed "Karakulit 2017" is currently being held in Pécs, an ancient city in southern Hungary, until May 10. The event was initiated by ...

Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...