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In the north of the country, Wayang kulit Kelantan is being revitalized through contemporary storytelling and the long-overdue inclusion of women. Illya Sumanto’s original puppets of female ghosts for ...

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 (Bernama) -- 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 ...

Orang Asli culture and folklore come to life in the form of giant puppets and street parades in the Awas! Mawas! exhibition. Named after the Mawas, the Orang Asli version of Bigfoot, the exhibition is ...

On this "May The Fourth" (aka Star Wars Day), let's strap in, engage hyperdrive, and look into the fascinating intersection of Star Wars and Malaysian culture, where the galaxy far, far away has not ...

Take a walk along the ground floor of The Gardens Mall in Kuala Lumpur, and you may notice wayang kulit in the window display of Hermès’ renovated and expanded store. The scenes depicted in the ...

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, ...

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 ...