Bamboo Afternoon Part 1


	A Display at Saung Udjo Welcome to Saung Udjo, the place where angklung is made and performed. Saung Udjo was established in January 1967 by Mang Udjo and his late wife Uum Sumiati with cooperation and stimulus of master, the late Mr. Daeng Sutigna - a prominent angklung player. Assistance and support also comes from central and local government which realized that establishment of SAUNG UDJO becomes one of important aspect of tourism in Indonesia. Below, you can find more detail about our program... Wayang Golek Demonstration The real performance of wayang golek (puppet show) will last more than 7 hours and sometimes it will takes one or even two nights to finish a story. However, here in SAUNG UDJO, we are going to present only a demonstration of the following: -how a wayang dances -how a wayang speaks -how a wayang fights and goes to war Wayang is a figure or picture of man's life, so the character represents good life, or even bad and greedy life. A wayang story can serve as a lesson for us to always do good deeds, to obey our Creator and be loyal to our leaders. Those who do goodness, will win and live a happy life in the future, and those who do something wicked in their lives will suffer the consequences of his wickedness. If you would like to watch the real wayang performance, we suggest you to contact a famous Dalang (puppet master) by the name of Bapak Ade Sunarya or Bapak Asep Sunandar Sunarya at the Rumentang Siang Theater in Bandung. Bamboo Afternoon Part 1 We can find bamboo plants almost everywhere in Indonesia. Bamboo is becoming a part of the necessities of life for most people in Indonesian society, especially in the villages. They use bamboo for walls and floors of their houses, for underlease of their beds, kitchen utensils and for other furniture. Even rebung (young bamboo-plant) can be used as foodstuff. Khitanan (circumcision) In villages, boys of ten years old who will be circumcised are given many kinds of performances in order to give the boys happiness. On this program we will show you a situation when friends of the boy to be circumcised are carrying the boys along in a procession. We will also show you children's dance accompanied by traditional angklung which based on salendro scale and playing old sundanese songs. Arumba Arumba is bamboo music instrument which was spesifically created to be played in form of a band and can be played in few number of players. This instrument performed for the first time in 1970. ARUMBA is a contraction of "A"- Alunan (waves), "RUM"-rumpun (bush/shrub), "BA"-Bambu (bamboo) it means Alunan Rumpun Bambu or "The Waves of The Bamboo Shrub", enjoy. Tari Topeng or The Mask Dance First part (not wear a mask) Represents "Layang Kumitir" messanger of Queen Kencana Wungu from Majapahit investigating the situation at Blambangan Kingdom. Second Part (wear a mask) Represents the king Menak Jinggo from Blambangan Kingdom, who seems to take agreat pride in himself and scorns athirst.

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Bamboo Afternoon Part 1