An unusual piece of shadow animation has popped up in my weekly google alert.
Simon Cassels and Justin Blampied, the creators of this 'Spec piece' - a proposed ad for Nike - discuss being inspired by wayang kulit's clean and straightforward storytelling capacities (see http://www.creativereview.co.uk/feed/march-2010/05/nike-wayang).
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A blog on the performing arts of Indonesia - performances, films and videos, meetings, noteworthy discussions and ongoing research into Indonesian performance from a transnational perspective.
Welcome to Indonesian Performance
I started this blog in October 2008 in preparation for a trip to Indonesia. It is a space to share some of my thoughts and ideas about what I am writing, researching, studying, performing and thinking about. I have long-standing research interests in the world of wayang; Indonesia's diverse popular theatres such as komedi stambul, ketoprak, ludruk, sandiwara and tarling; and the arts and culture of Cirebon. I am also a practicing dalang (shadow puppeteer) - having studied at both ISI Surakarta and with a number of Cirebon puppeteers. I use this blog to report on all Indonesian performing arts - folk, classical, popular and modern - as well as visual culture on occasion.
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- Matthew Isaac Cohen
- London, England, United Kingdom
- I am Professor of International Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, with research interests in Indonesian performing arts and traditions of puppetry around the world. I also perform as a shadow puppeteer (dalang) on occasion - see http://kandabuwana.wordpress.com/
1 comment:
We have one puppet here of a prison guard. He wears Nike shoes which one can see emblem on his feet.
So 'inspiration' can work both ways
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