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Dewa Putu Berata, 1997, 1999
was born to a family of musicians and painters in the village of Pengosekan,
Bali. After graduating from SMKI (national high school of the arts)
he continued on to graduate with high honors from STSI Denpasar (Bali's
national academy of the arts) during which time he joined international
performance tours to Japan, Spain and the United States. An accomplished
musician, composer, dancer and visual artist, Dewa is comfortable working
in traditional Balinese genres as well as developing new creative forms
of theatreGuest Artistic Director of Ratih and ‚udamani and has taught
and directed numerous gamelan and music. He was a founding member of
prominent groups such as Semara ensembles in Bali as well as in the
United States. He was the Guest Artistic Director of the San Francisco
Bay area ensemble Gamelan Sekar Jaya and co-director of the Javanese-Balinese
Ramayana project with Hardja Susilo and the Hawaii Gamelan Society.
He has also taught gamelan workshops at the University of California
at Berkeley and Yale. He is currently director of ‚udamani, a young
group of artists that endeavors to study rare classic forms of Balinese
arts as well as provide a rich environment for creative experimentation
in the performing and visual arts. In addition he is the director of
Sekaa Gong Tunas Mekar, a more traditional Balinese ensemble from his
home village of Pengosekan. He has been active in collaborative works
with groups such as Abhinaya and also worked extensively as collaborator
(music, scenic, costume design) with the innovative theater/shadow plays
"Wayang Listrik", Sidha Karya (1995) and Mayadenawa (1996); projects
done in collaboration with Shadowlight Productions and Larry Reed. In
the most recent "Wayang Listrik" Electric Shadows, Dewa toured extensively
in the United States with Shadowlight Productions and when he returned
to Bali, the project was re-worked by ‚udamani and performed in Bali.
 Irwansyah
Harasap, 1997
Currently teaching Ethnomusicology in the Program Etnomusikologi
of the Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Irwansyah Harasap also directs
activities for Gaung Sumatera Utara, "Echoes of North Sumatra,"
a studio/workshop he established in 1995 to bring together various performance
traditions. A trained musician in various genres, including guitar,
bass guitar, gambus (Melayu plucked lute), ud (Arab plucked
lute) , taganing (Toba Batak tuned-drum set), godang hasapi
(Toba Batak string and xylophone ensemble), and gordan sambilan
(Mandailing Batak nine-drum set). His studies on "Taganing of the
Toba Batak" at the Program Etnomusikologi, Fakultas Sastra from
1983 to 1991 led to his work at the University of Washington, Seattle,
where he earned his 1994 M.A. degree in Ethnomusicology. -
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Hartati, 1996
was born in Jakarta but grew up in West Sumatra where she studied and
performed with Minangkabau choreographer, Gusmiati Suid in the Gumarang
Sakti Dance Company. Her training has included the Indonesian martial
art form of Pencak Silat, as well as the study of both traditional and
contemporary dance forms from West Sumatra. She continuted her education
in choreography at the Jakarta Art Institute, where she was introduced
to a variety of dance forms from other parts of Indonesia, as well as
ballet and modern dance. In 1989, she performed at the Hong Kong International
Festival of Dance Academies, where she received an award for her choreography.
Hartati toured the United States as part of the 1991 Festival of Indonesia,
attended the 2nd Asian Dance Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1992
and had her choreography featured at the 14th annual Asia Festival of
the Arts in Jakarta, and most recently at the Indonesian Dance Festival.
Ida
Ayu Wimba Ruspawati, 2000
was trained in the classical Balinese dance repertoire. Since 1986,
she has been a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor at STSI, Denpasar
(Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia, the Bali State College of Indonesian
Arts at Denpasar). She has toured extensively and performed with STSI
in Japan, Canada, Germany and the United States. She is interested in
how Balinese and other Indonesian arts relate to other world arts and
is often involved in cross-cultural exchange and creating new collaborative
pieces.
I Made Sidia,
1996
Born in the village of Bona, in Gianyar district of Bali, Sidia is one
of Bali's new generation of performers. Like his father, I Made Sija,
Sidia is an accomplished dalang/puppeteer, topeng (masked) dancer, musician
and choreographer. He began his training at the age of ten with his
father and as a young adult he continued his studies at the High School
of Performing Arts (SMKI) in Batubulan. He then studied at the National
Arts Institute in Denpasar (STSI), where he is now on the faculty. He
has toured extensively throughout Indonesia, Asia, Europe and the United
States. His new work has been presented at the Bali Arts Festival, and
he recently collaborated with American artists Kent Deveroux and Jarod
Powell on a multi-media performance titled 'Visible Religion' which
was performed in Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago.
 Eko
Supriyanto, 1997, 1999
is a graduate of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (STSI) in Surakarta,
Central Java, Indonesia. Beginning at the age of seven, he studied with
Kahari and Alit Maryono providing a foundation in Javanese Court dance
and traditional martial arts (pencak silat). While attending STSI, he
worked with eminent Indonesian choreographers S. Pamardi, Sardono W.
Kusumo and S. Maridi, as well in improvisational dance, ballet and modern
dance technique. As a performer and choreographer, he has worked in
various cities across Indonesia, and at the 1994 and 1996 Indonesian
Dance Festival. In 1997, he was invited to join the International Choreographers-in-Residence
Program (ICR) at the American Dance Festival in New York and Durham,
North Carolina, and was a guest artist for Sutra Dance Theatre in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. In 1998, he performed for Peter Sellars' opera production
of "Le Grand Macabre" at Chatelet Theatre du Paris, France, and has
collaborated on dance projects with fellow APPEX artist Sen Hea Ha from
Korea, performing in Solo, Central Java and at the Makassar Dance Festival
in Ujung Pandang (South Sulawesi), Indonesia. Most recently Eko participated
at the American College Dance Festival at CSU Hayward and is currently
receiving grants from Asian Cultural Council and The Ford Foundation
to pursue his Masters Degree at UCLA's Department of World Arts and
Cultures.
Nuryanto Susanto, 2000
was born in Karanganyar, Indonesia, and is a choreographer, dancer and
faculty member at STSI, Surakarta. He has performed on tour in the United
Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and Korea. He began choreographing in 1988,
integrating Javanese and modern dance forms and expression. His works
have been performed in Bali, Surakarta, at Borobudur Temple in Central
Java, the Indonesian Dance Festival and also in the Philippine International
Theater Festival and Conference in Manila. In 1999, he participated
as a dancer in the work of Chinese choreographer Wen Hui in Dining with
1999, a work performed at the Indonesian Dance Festival in Jakarta.
Indra Utama,
1997
A leading dancer and choreographer of Sumatra, Indra. Utama is the
dance director of ASKI, the Academy of Music and Dance in Padang Panjang,
Western Sumatra. Known for his interest in both traditional and contemporary
expressions, his work draws upon Minangkabau dance and Penca Silat martial
arts as well as experimental sources. He recently participated in an
intercultural workshop in Singapore, directed by Ong Sen Kang of Theatreworks.
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Nyoman Windha, 2000
from the
village of Singapadu, is one of Bali's most prominent composers and
musicians. He is a faculty member of STSI, Denpasar who has taught,
composed and performed extensively both within Indonesia and internationally.
His list of works now exceeds forty major compositions including a range
of dance music, accompaniment for the popular dance dramas, other theatrical
forms and many kinds of instrumental music. In addition to teaching
and performing his own work, he has worked in collaboration with artists
and groups such as Evan Ziporyn, Dieter Mack, Keith Terry and the San
Francisco Bay Area's Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Touring and teaching have taken
him to Japan, Europe, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States.
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