Sendratari Ramayana

ramayana ballet performances

ramayana ballet performances

Ramayana Ballet is the performing arts are beautiful, fascinating and difficult to compare. This performance is able to unite various Javanese arts such as dance, drama and music on one stage and one momentum to present the story of Ramayana, Valmiki's legendary epic written in Sanskrit.
The story of Ramayana is sung on the show is similar to that engraved on Prambanan temple. Like the fabled, Ramayana story carved on the most beautiful Hindu temple similar to the story in oral tradition in India. The road is long and thrilling story was summarized in four plays or round, kidnapping Sprott, Anoman mission to Alengka, Kumbakarna or Ravana's death, and the reunion of Rama-Shinta.


 

ramayana ballet performances

The whole story is presented in a series of dance movements performed by dancers accompanied by gamelan music beautiful. You are invited to actually dissolve in the story and observe each movement of the dancers to know the story. No dialogue is spoken from the dancers, the only speakers are sinden depicting the story through the songs in the Java language with a distinctive voice.
The story begins when King Janaka held a contest to determine the companion Dewi Shinta (daughter) who eventually won Rama Wijaya. Followed by adventures of Rama, Shinta and Rama's brother Lakshmana in the Forest named Dandaka. In the forest they met Ravana's wish to have them as the incarnation Shinta Dewi Widowati, a woman who has long sought.
To attract the attention of Shinta, Ravana change of his followers named Marica to Deer. The effort was successful because Shinta was captivated and asked Rama to chase the deer. Rama after a long search Laksama not come back while Shinta was abandoned and given a magic circle of protection so that Ravana could kidnap. Protection because it failed after Ravana kidnapped Shinta successfully transform themselves into the figure of Drona.

ramayana ballet performances

At the end of the story, Shinta been won back from Ravana by Hanuman, the monkey figure agile and powerful. But when brought back, Rama Shinta just do not believe anymore and consider it has been tarnished. To prove the purity, Shinta asked to burn his body. Shinta chastity proved because his body does not burn anything but she became more beautiful. Rama was eventually accepted back as a wife.
You will not be disappointed if this excellent performance because not only dance and music are being prepared. Lighting is prepared in such a way that not only become a mute rays, but was able to describe certain events in the story. Similarly, the makeup of each dancer, not only beautify but also able to describe the character played by character so the audience can easily recognize though no dialogue.

prambanan temple at night

You also can find not only dance but also the scene of interest such as fireball game acrobatics and agility of a dancer. Fireball charming game can be found Hanuman originally typed will be burned alive just managed to burn Ravana's kingdom Alengkadiraja. While the stunt could be encountered when Hanuman war with the followers of Ravana. Pyrotechnics when Shinta was about to burn itself is also interesting to watch.
In Yogyakarta, there are two places to watch the Ramayana Ballet. First, in Purawisata Yogyakarta is located at Jalan Brig Katamso, east of Yogyakarta Kingdom. In a place that had a record-breaking Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) in 2002 after staging the ballet every day without fail for 25 years, you will get a dinner package at once to see the ballet. Places to watch others being at the Prambanan Temple, the place of the original Ramayana story carved on temple reliefs.