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In “Cup of Java: Javanese Dance Voices,” the line between music and performance is blurred. Showing in Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., the performance will ...

Dozens of women dressed in traditional Javanese attire were lining up inside Balai Sarwono multi-function hall in Kemang in South Jakarta recently. All members of the Purwakanthi community were ...

On Sunday, April 23, Buffalo’s Nusantara Arts will treat us to a spectacular Sunday afternoon of Javanese shadow puppetry unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. These Javanese Wayang ...

In the olden days, the barongan dance was performed at royal courts. --fotoBERNAMA (2021) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED -The barongan dance narrates the tale of Perabu and Warok who both want to marry the same ...

Members of Surya Kirana dance group wearing face shields practice Javanese traditional dance amid the COVID-19 outbreak at Desa Seni in Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park (TMII), Jakarta, Indonesia, ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

SINGAPORE: Practitioners of kuda kepang, the traditional hobby horse dance, are drawing on the ancient Javanese dance’s performance roots to keep it alive in Singapore. Hoping to bring a centuries-old ...

A gamelan is a group of musical instruments — ones steeped in thousands of years of Javanese and Balinese tradition and built and tuned as a unified harmonic ensemble. Each gamelan is unique, and ...