- Every night
RAMAYANA BALLET PERFORMANCE AT PURAWISATA
| Time | : | Every night, 20.00 – 21.30 | |
| Venue | : | Purawisata Jl. Brigjen Katamso Phone: +62 274 375705 |
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| Category | : | Art performance, Sendratari (dance, drama and music) | |
| Description | : | Ramayana Ballet is a beautiful, enchanting and unrivalled performance that could combine the diversity of Javanese arts in forms of dance, drama and music in one stage that at the same time could deliver Ramayana story in four stages: Sinta’s abduction, Anoman’s mission to Alengka, Kumbarkana’s death and the happy ending when Rama meets Sinta again. This show has received the award for making a record of 25 year stripping show from MURI (Indonesia documentary record museum). www.yogyes.com/ramayana-ballet |
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| Ticketing | : | IDR 140,000 (per show) IDR 250,000 (show + dinner) |
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- Every night
DANGDUT MUSIC PERFORMANCE
| Time | : | Every night, 20.30 – 23.00 | |
| Venue | : | Purawisata Jl. Brigjen Katamso Phone: +62 274 375705 |
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| Category | : | Music | |
| Description | : | Dangdut is a very popular music stream in Indonesia that is a mixture of traditional, Arabian, Indian and proto malay. The attractive part is at the entertaining rhytm, beauty of the singers and body movement following the rhytm in particular. Purawisata comes with different Malay music assemble and singer every single day. | |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 8,000 (week days) IDR 10,000 (Saturday night) |
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- Every night
WAYANG KULIT (LEATHER PUPPET) SHOW
| Time | : | Every night, 20.00 – 22.00 | |
| Venue | : | Museum Sonobudoyo Jl. Trikora No. 6 Yogyakarta Phone: +62 274 418330 |
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| Category | : | Cultural performance | |
| Description | : | Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is a magnificent artwork of Javanese art performance that has received acknowledgment from UNESCO. A dalang (wayang player) plays puppet made from buffalo’s leather behind a white screen. Hence, the audience can only see the shadow. That’s exactly the reason why it’s called “wayang” meaning shadow in English. The attractive parts of the show lie on the dynamic movement of dalang at playing different roles of wayang, changing the voice character, his jokes and even his singing. www.yogyes.com/wayang-kulit-show |
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| Ticketing | : | IDR 20,000 | |
- Every Sunday
WAYANG ORANG SHOW
| Time | : | Every Sunday, 11.00 – 12.00 | |
| Venue | : | Keraton Yogyakarta Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1 Phone: +62 274 373721 |
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| Category | : | Cultural performance, Theater | |
| Description | : | “Wayang Orang” is a Javanese traditional theater combining music, drama and dance. The actors making up themselves as if they’re the real leather puppet played by them. The story at this show taken from Mahabarta or Ramayana story. | |
| Ticketing | : | It’s free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) | |
- Every 1st Sunday night in a month
KETOPRAK SHOW
| Time | : | Every 1st Sunday night in a month, 20.00 – 24.00 | |
| Venue | : | Auditorium RRI Jl. Affandi / Jl. Gejayan Phone: +62 274 512783 |
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| Category | : | Art performance, Theater | |
| Description | : | Ketoprak is a traditional javanese theater performance. Just like wayang orang, Ketoprak comes with a drama inserting a Javanese composition and gamelan music. The critical difference lies on its source of the story where it’s not derived from Mahabarata or Ramayana but it’s derived from legend or other stories. | |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 5,000 | |
- Every Monday and Tuesday
KARAWITAN SHOW
| Time | : | Every Monday and Tuesday, 10.00 – 12.00 | |
| Venue | : | Keraton Yogyakarta Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1 Phone: +62 274 373721 |
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| Category | : | Art performance, Music | |
| Description | : | A show combining gamelan music and singing. Karawitan is derived from sanskrit word “rawit” meaning soft. Watching this show can be best described as experiencing the ideal values of Javanese music philosophy from the source, Keraton Yogyakarta (Sultan’s palace) | |
| Ticketing | : | It’s free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) | |
- Every Wednesday
WAYANG GOLEK SHOW
| Time | : | Every Wednesday, 10.00 – 12.00 | |
| Venue | : | Keraton Yogyakarta Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1 Phone: +62 274 373721 |
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| Category | : | Cultural Performance | |
| Description | : | Wayang Golek is a wooden puppet art show which is so popular in West Java. | |
| Ticketing | : | It’s free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) | |
- Every Thursday
GAMELAN MUSIC AND CLASSICAL JAVANESE DANCE PERFORMANCE
| Time | : | Every Thursday, 10.00 – 12.00 | |
| Venue | : | Keraton Yogyakarta Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1 Phone: +62 274 373721 |
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| Category | : | Cultural performance, Music | |
| Description | : | Seeing Javanese philosophy through music. That’s the valuable thing that you’ll experience by watching this cultural performance at this special place. Listening to the gamelan rhytm can be best described as listening to a harmony relaxing your mind and soul. www.yogyes.com/gamelan-show |
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| Ticketing | : | It’s free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) | |
- Every Friday
MACAPAT SONG PERFORMANCE
| Time | : | Every Friday, 10.00 – 11.30 | |
| Venue | : | Keraton Yogyakarta Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1 Phone: +62 274 373721 |
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| Category | : | Cultural Performance, Music | |
| Description | : | This is a poetry reading performance accompanied by gamelan music. The poetry is presented as if it’s a song that has a specific pattern and composition. There are seven songs in Macapat: Dhandang Gula, Sinom, Asmarandana and Kinanthi. Each song has its total lyrics and sound called guru. | |
| Ticketing | : | It’s free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) | |
- Every Saturday
WAYANG KULIT (LEATHER PUPPET) SHOW
| Time | : | Every Saturday, 09.00 – 13.00 | |
| Venue | : | Keraton Yogyakarta Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1 Phone: +62 274 373721 |
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| Category | : | Cultural Performance | |
| Description | : | Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is a magnificent artwork of Javanese art performance that has received acknowledgment from UNESCO. A dalang (wayang player) plays puppet made from buffalo’s leather behind a white screen. Hence, the audience can only see the shadow. That’s exactly the reason why it’s called “wayang” meaning shadow in English. The attractive parts of the show lie on the dynamic movement of dalang at playing different roles of wayang, changing the voice character, his jokes and even his singing. www.yogyes.com/wayang-kulit-show |
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| Ticketing | : | It’s free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) | |
- Every night
MASANGIN GAME
| Time | : | Every night, 19.00 till finish | |
| Venue | : | Alun Alun Kidul (Southern square of Sultan’s palace) | |
| Category | : | Game | |
| Description | : | Try to walk as if you’re blind by closing your eyes to get into the middle of two banyan tress at southern square of Sultan’s palace.
If you’re lucky,you might be able to proceed smoothly. However, many people end up tofar deviation at that process inviting many laughs. For more joy and fun, challenge your friends to do the same thing and compare the results. |
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| Ticketing | : | Free | |
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