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 ...

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 ...

The first surprise to be revealed on Friday night at the Asia Society: Modern classical Javanese shadow puppetry isn’t so much about shadows anymore. During the greeting music for this rare local ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

NEW YORK, March 16, 2012 — Fourth installment of Ki Purbo Asmoro's epic Javanese shadow puppet performance at Asia Society. (44 min., 57 sec.) Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared futures for ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Correction appended: This story listed the time of the “Sinta Ablaze” concert as 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Staff at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library love giving walking tours of the campus. They function like walking Bates encyclopedias, dropping tidbits about everything from ...