SINGAPORE: Practitioners of kuda kepang, the traditional hobby horse dance, are drawing on the ancient Javanese dance’s performance roots to keep it alive in Singapore. Hoping to bring a ...

One building houses an animated display about the cycles and rituals of Javanese life. In an open pavilion, daily dance and puppetry shows happen, the most beautiful of which is a Sunday-morning ...

It is the place where almost all signifiers of Javanese cultural production — such as gamelan, wayang kulit, wayang orang, court dance, oral literature, etc. — were developed for centuries, long ...

Practitioners of kuda kepang, or traditional hobby horse dance, are drawing on the ancient Javanese dance’s performance roots to keep it alive here.