Dalang I Wayan Wija: Balinese Music and Shadow Puppet Ensemble
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 1, p. 8, September/October 1995: The Western Front continues its tradition of artistic exchange with artists…
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Results filed under: shadow plays
Indonesian Music & Shadows
Subono returned to the Western Front to perform wayang kulit (shadow play), this time with the Simon Fraser University gamelan, Kyai Madu Sari. Co-sponsored by Simon Fraser…
Dewa Ruci
Wayang Kulit, Javanese shadow play. Under the artistic direction of Pak Sardono, the Indonesian pavillion at Expo ’86 presented daily concerts of Indonesian dance, music…
The MacBooty Brothers
Zootsuited clowns, packing leopardskin Kalashnikovs, performed a shadow play based on super 8 film shot in Nicaragua, and finished with a jam session on piano…
World Shadows
For the last year, the artists had been travelling in Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Africa and Europe; their objective was to meet other artists and…
An Existential Definition of Religion at the Western Front
Marshalore, a multi-media artist/performer/musician, was a member of Véhicule Art, Montreal and a co-founder of Véhicule Press. She used performance and media to explore “the…
The HP Shadow Play
Ready and Bull had been collaborating on radio plays, inventions and a book project, but this was their first formal performance. In a parody of…