This film documents the variety of performances arranged by the Kraton Yogyakarta and scheduled to provide visitors to the palace with a performing-arts cultural encounter. This practice exemplifies strategies explored by the palace to relate itself to the world beyond its own walls. The palace’s attempts to accommodate tourist expectations have evolved over the years; this film documents the strategy being utilized in 2007, when the footage was taken. The schedule of performances documented here remained in effect in 2016.
