Ramayana Ballet, Dance Drama from Java

Ramayana Ballet performance art is a beautiful, imposing and difficult. The show is able to unify the form of Java multiformity arts dance, drama and music in one stage and the momentum to pass the Ramayana story, a legendary epic Walmiki paper written in Sanskrit.

Ramayana story that brought this on the show with a similar at Prambanan. As many told, the story of the Ramayana presence at Hindu temple similar to the story in the oral tradition in India. The way the story is long and tense it be in the act or four innings, kidnapping Sinta, Anoman mission to Alengka, Rahwana or death Kumbakarna, meetings and back-Rama Sinta.

Stories are all in the series of dance movement that brought by the dancers who accompanied the handsome gamelan music. You start to really late in the story and read every movement of the dancers to learn the way the story. There is no dialogue from the dancers, the only speaker is sinden story that describes the way through the songs in the Java language with a unique voice.

from: YogYes