In this talk Lisa shares research on musical transmission, performance practice, and recent developments in Balinese wayang (shadow puppet theater) and gender wayang across several generations. Her elderly teachers in the 1980s and 90s shared with me memories of zaman/jaman dulu (a concept of a rich, bygone past) from the early 20th Century as they saw the wayang repertoire of their teacher’s time diminishing. Today, despite that loss, their descendants are part of a burgeoning wayang performance scene as they train numerous young performers, with females sometimes at the forefront. Lisa shares video & audio examples of early and more recent innovators, including some wayang listrik, and thoughts about personal and public space.