Dalang Wayang Kulit

Dalang in the wayang world is defined as someone who has special expertise play wayang. These skills are usually obtained from the talent down – generations of ancestors. A child will be able dalang mastermind without formal learning. He will follow his father while dalang with bringing equipment, sets the stage, set up wayang, became pengrawit, or sit behind his father to help prepare the wayang to be played.

During follow his father “dalang” in a long time – from small to teens-this learning process that happens very naturally, and the average child will be able dalang mastermind after big later. But many a child would not be a dalang in days to come, because they have their own life choices.

But the phenomenon is not always true, in the presence of wayangry schools both high school and college, scored a Bachelor of wayangry is not only capable but also wayang play broad and critical thinking. In college this is also the mastermind who is not born of the seed of a dalang , but only someone who has a strong intention to learn and can eventually dalang mastermind.

Dalang is a mean word comes from the word Dahyang, which means the interpreter healing various diseases. Dalang also can be interpreted to give enlightenment to the penontonya. For that the mastermind should have a stock of knowledge that very much. Various areas of science must be studied if only slightly, so that when the building can adjust the content of the story with the development of the era and contemporary values.