{"id":13818,"date":"2014-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/30\/indonesian-puppetry-and-a-festival-of-west-javanese-culture-come-to-freersackler\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"indonesian-puppetry-and-a-festival-of-west-javanese-culture-come-to-freersackler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/30\/indonesian-puppetry-and-a-festival-of-west-javanese-culture-come-to-freersackler\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Puppetry and a Festival of West Javanese Culture Come to Freer\/Sackler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/museums\/indonesian-puppetry-and-a-festival-of-west-javanese-culture-come-to-freersackler\/2014\/09\/25\/a082ffd0-4293-11e4-8042-aaff1640082e_story.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON D.C., September 26, 2014 (Washington Post): Epic narrative. Exquisite music. Spirited humor. And puppets. The performing-art form wayang golek has it all, says Kathy Foley, a scholar and master puppeteer who is deeply versed in this brand of theater, traditional to the Sundanese culture of West Java, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Wayang golek could be likened to &#8220;a combination of what we would think of as opera, Shakespeare and popular stand-up comedy,&#8221; with dance (by puppets) and some &#8220;high philosophical wisdom&#8221; thrown in, says Foley, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She was speaking by phone in the lead-up to &#8220;The Miraculous Birth of Hanuman, the Monkey King,&#8221; the wayang golek production in which she&#8217;s scheduled to perform at the Freer Gallery of Art on Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The show, which dramatizes an episode from Hindu mythology, also will feature gamelan musicians from the Indonesian College of the Arts in the city of Bandung. It&#8217;s all part of &#8220;Performing Indonesia: Music, Dance and Theater From West Java,&#8221; a two-day festival being presented by the Smithsonian&#8217;s Freer\/Arthur M. Sackler galleries and the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WASHINGTON D.C., September 26, 2014 (Washington Post): Epic narrative. Exquisite music. Spirited humor. And puppets. The performing-art form wayang,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}