Ramayana in Wayang Wong Dance

[tomzcafe]

Some of us may have known with the story of Ramayana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana), which has been told in many forms of story telling.

Ramayana story, with south-east Asian flavors, is the main theme of the Dance Festival 2011.

This year, a group of Javanese Traditional Dancers from Solo, Indonesia performed the Wayang Wong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang_wong) with Gamelan live on the stage for 3-nights during the festival.

Here are some pictures taken on the first act of that dance, 'At The Dandaka Forest', where Rama, Sita and Lakhsmana exile in Dandaka forest. Rahwana come and then Surpanakha to change to Golden deer, as a trick which lead to eventually lead Rahwana to kidnap Sita.

Pictures were taken using Nikon 85/2.

The happy couple, Rama and Sita



Lakshmana




Pray to God(s) for their happy married life despite living in the forest



Rahwana



He notice the beauty of Sita



Rahwana and the Golden Deer

[llumiombres]

Nice photos. I think you captured some action. Prefocus, I imagine,

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[tomzcafe]

Certain movement of the classical Javanese dance, as in some of the movements in this dance, are considered slow so that focusing to take the shot is still possible.

[dragom]

Well done.