rumput – rumput

Silver Dagger

New crankie + shadow-puppetry video for our langgam keroncong arrangement of the traditional song Silver Dagger. Crankie and arrangement by Hannah; shadow theater by Andy McGraw, Jess Zike, and Noel.

https://youtu.be/kF8dfdp6VDw

Club Fist

Shadow theater video by the McGraw/Zike clan for the traditional children’s rhyme. Music is Rumput’s adaptation of Sally Goodin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWkjW4sJsQE

Lowlands of Holland

New video for our adaptation of the traditional song Lowlands of Holland. Arrangement by Paul Willson; shadow theater by Andy McGraw, Jess Zike, and Noel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3z1qqk9TUs

CANCELED due to Covid-19! Spring 2020 Tour: Nicotiana

Featuring Balinese Shadow Master Gusti Sudarta and a new crankie on the ongoing deadly colonial history of tobacco in the Americas and Southeast Asia.

See our full listing of tour dates.

We got together with some of our local Indonesian friends for food, fellowship and filming!

Video produced and edited by our own Nat Quick, with location and cinematography provided by Piperbear Properties and HD Bros.

Rumput with Endah Laras and Danis Sugiyanto at Smithsonian — complete show on video

Watch the full show on Facebook live video from the Smithsonian Freer Sackler Gallery.

Jali-Jali on Line Today

Social media aggregator Line Today reposted our video of Jali-Jali, calling it “luar biasa fasih” (extraordinarily fluent). It soared past 100k views in a week!

Check out the thread on facebook but be sure to check out the full-resolution version below.

Akar video: live performance with crankie & shadow puppets

US premiere of Akar at The Roundhouse, Richmond VA, September 2 2018.

Last September was the US premiere of Akar, our intercultural retelling of Jack & the Beanstalk, here in Richmond Virginia, following our tour of Java.