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1. How does Wayang Kulit reflect the cultural identity of Indonesia and Malaysia, and what role does the Dalang play in the performance?

2. What distinguishes Potehi glove puppetry in Malaysia from other forms of puppet theater, and how does it preserve Chinese cultural traditions?

3. What makes Mua Roi Nuoc, or Vietnamese water puppetry, unique in its performance style, and how do music and narration enhance the storytelling?

4. How do festivals such as Thaipusam, Bon Om Touk, and Bun Bang Fai highlight the connection between music, religion, and community life in Southeast Asia?

5. In what ways do Southeast Asian traditional dances, such as the Philippines’ Maglalatik and Singapore’s Malay and Indian dances, serve as expressions of culture and tradition?

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1 The dalang is the controller of the puppets, and the one who creates the stories, It reflects to the story to reality about beliefs, stories or maybe fictional stories itself.

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4. It highlights their connection, in how their ancestors used to bond and connect in their era, it shows how we still have that strong connection in our culture

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The Role the Dalang plays is the Narrator OR the One Who controls the Puppets

The Wayang Kulit reflects

preserving ancient Hindu epics and local lore promoting moral teachings about justice and loyalty embodying cultural syncretism through its blend of influences showcasing intricate Indonesian craftsmanship in the puppets and fostering community bonds through shared performances

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2. Potehi glove puppetry is a traditional form of puppet theater with Chinese roots. In Malaysia, it uses hand puppets and tells stories in the Hokkien dialect. It helps keep Chinese culture better and it keeps it more alive.

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1. It gives an acting as a medium for storytelling. It preserves historical narratives. Dalang plays the role of master puppeteer and storyteller. The Dalang is the one who controls the puppet, and tells the story.

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1. It's a living tradition that preserves history, teaches ethics, and connects audiences to the spiritual world.

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Answer: They express by storytelling and history they dance with feelings and they make movements that express or talks about their history. And they also dance for the community and show respect to their culture they entertain communities by expressing their love for their culture while the community watches and express joy and happiness and make them feel proud for their culture.

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1.the dalang is the controller of the puppets and it repersents their stories of there culture erving as a living repository for ancient Hindu epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata, conveying cultural values, religious teachings, and philosophical insights.

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1. The wayang kulit reflects the culture of Indonesia and Malaysia because of how they potray their culture through shadow puppetry. Dalang's role is to show how creative the puppeteer. The shadow puppetry gives joy to the people through their puppet's that are shown.

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3. It is unique because the show is on water, making the puppets look like they're moving magically on the surface. The puppeteers stay hidden while the puppets dance and act, which makes it unique and different from other puppet shows. Music and narration makes it seem more interesting and it makes the story easier to follow.

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Wayang Kulit is a traditional shadow puppet play, significantly reflects the cultural identity of Indonesia and Malaysia in several ways like a spiritual identity and a artistic expression or storytelling and values. The (Dalang) or known as puppeteer plays a significant role on controlling the puppet. The puppeteer manipulates the puppets and the narrating the puppets voices.

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3. Its breathtaking performance was its great timing. With amazing stories and beloved characters, Its music felt in extraordinary and majestic. The culture was amazing and outstanding with beautiful storytelling.

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Southeast Asian Dances can serve as a reminder and an expression for our ethnicity, tradition, and our culture. As it is very important to show love and compassion for our beloved country and its traditions. And since traditional dances from each country can hold significance to our heritage and to the homeland where we’ve been born in and how far country has experienced hardships but no matter what will happen. Our culture, traditions, and even dances are a very important reminder of how important our traditional dances are.

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3. It is unique because the puppets will dance in the water gracefully, and its narration of those stories is also a song for the puppets to dance along,this combination of song and narration brings beauty to the performance, along with that in the 90 minutes performance will introduce 17 folktales stories with one famous story being very popular (i forgot the name) being its main performance that every vietnamese person likes.

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5. The people express their wonderful and beautiful culture by showing their traditional clothes, express their traditional dances and showing the wonderful culture, and lastly, showing respect of their religion.

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5.Southeast Asian traditional dances, such as the Philippines' Maglalatik and Singapore's Malay and Indian dances, serve as vibrant expressions of culture and tradition by showcasing unique storytelling, intricate movements.

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1.Wayang Kulit, or shadow puppetry, reflects the cultural identity of Indonesia and Malaysia through its storytelling, which often incorporates local myths, legends, and moral teachings. The performances are accompanied by traditional music and Javanese gamelan, further embedding cultural elements. The Dalang, or puppeteer, is central to the performance, serving as the narrator, voice actor, and conductor of the orchestra, skillfully weaving together the story and cultural values.

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5.Southeast Asian traditional dances, such as the Philippines’ Maglalatik and Singapore’s Malay and Indian dances, serve as expressions of culture and tradition by preserving and showcasing the unique cultural heritage, stories, and values of their communities.

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1.What makes Mua Roi Nuoc is beautiful because it is very creative. Mua Roi Nuoc is also a tradition. vietnam so its very special to them. Finally Mua Roi Nuoc mean day-to-day living in rural vietnam and vietnamese folk tales that are told by their grandparent to their grandchildren.

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1. Wayang Kulit reflects the cultural identity of Indonesia and Malaysia. By embodying their rich traditions, history, and spiritual beliefs. Through its intricate puppetry and storytelling.

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3. It's unique because it uses water for Performances and it's really interesting to look at because there using water instead of a dry,flat surface. And it's kinda hard to perform because the controllers of the puppet are behind the curtains while performing and they have to control it anywhere and it's tiring. There designs of the puppet is very unique, it's colorful,jolly,and cute.

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2. despite the lack of resources to hire    real opera troupe groups. the determination leads to the chinese settlers to find ways to show and spread their culture. it shows the unwavering determination to love their culture

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2. despite the lack of resources to hire    real opera troupe groups. the determination leads to the chinese settlers to find ways to show and spread their culture. it shows the unwavering determination to love their culture

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1.Wayang Kulit reflects an important role to their culture that shows their incredible history. This is also to make the culture tradition alive. Dalang is the one who controls the puppet behind the white curtains.Dalang voices also the one who voices the characters to visualize the story better.

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5.) Traditional dances serve as expressions of culture and tradition because it also involves community bonding. Traditional dances sometimes involve the community coming together and strengthening social bonds. Some traditional dances happen to celebrate a holiday in their country or to symbolize something.

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2.potehi glove puppetry in Malaysia is distinguished by its use of intricate hand puppets controlled by a single puppeteer,often accompanied by traditional Chinese music and operatic singing,setting it apart from other puppet forms like shadow puppetry or sting puppetry. It preserves Chinese cultural traditions through its narratives, which often retell classical Chinese stories and legends, and by incorporating traditional Chinese operatic elements,costumes,and musical instruments.

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1. It reflects by their cultural beliefs .the stories they make can be either frictional or true. Dalang is the one that create the play. Dalang is also the creator of it he makes the voices and the movment.

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2 It is a storytelling of Chinese myths and folklore potehi is a porformances that tells Chinese traditional stories such as myths and legend potehi reflect Chinese values and it contribute the preservation of Chinese cultural identity in Malaysia

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Traditional dances like the Philippines’ Maglalatik and Singapore’s Malay and Indian dances show culture by telling stories, showing beliefs, and keeping traditions alive.