Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:20:22 -0700
From: "Randy Ross" <gloreeeah-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] shadow puppet show in vancouver bc. wow . puppet master


*Wed July 9 & Thu July 10 at 7:30pm.
Tickets $20/16, Reservations 604.713.1800.*
roundhouse community centre. davie & pacific . vancouver .bc can.

New Javanese Shadows is an original interdisciplinary performance combining
the art of Javanese shadow puppet theatre, the sonorous gamelan music of
Central Java, and computer video imagery. Ancient and modern techniques
manifest a tale based around the beloved iconic god-clown of Javanese shadow
theatre, Semar. We follow him from his birth in heaven, through tests of his
power (he swallowed the mountain of knowledge but couldn't digest it), to
his arrival in our midst, as he is caught up in the world's endless problems
and the entanglements of human folly. Musicians from Yogyakarta, Java and
Vancouver's Gamelan Madu Sari, in collaboration with renowned puppeteer Seno
Nugroho, come together in this ground-breaking integration of the classical
and the contemporary.

Vancouver's Javanese gamelan ensemble, Gamelan Madu Sari, has developed a
close relationship with Seno. In July 2007 the group toured our original
multi-media shadow play Semar's Journey in Java, collaborating with Seno on
the shadow puppetry, and performing a new contemporary score for gamelan
orchestra with his musicians. In addition to the creation of new puppets and
a completely new story line, a special feature of Semar's Journey was the
computer-enhanced video of Canadian painter/animator Aleksandra Dulic and
computer arts guru Kenneth Newby. Their images combined onscreen with the
stylized movements of the Javanese puppets, giving the show its own unique
visual design. New Javanese Shadows is a further extension of this concept.
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