Lecture-Performances

 

Ni Madé Pujawati dancing the Kebyar classic Tarunajaya at Queen Elizabeth Hall London

 

Ni Madé Pujawati also specializes in performances combined with lectures by Mark Hobart (CV) designed to introduce audiences to more advanced aspects of Balinese dance and culture. Recent lecture-performance include:

How creative are the Balinese performing arts? (Quanto sono creative le arti rappresentative Balinesi? ) University of Pavia ; also Il Teatrino di Palazzo D'Arco, Mantova, May 2002; also at Williams College, MA, May 2005 and at Hamilton College , NY , April 2006.

The arts of spectacle: appropriation and creativity. (Le arti dello spettacolo a Bali: appropriazioni e creatività) Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Venice International University, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia, May 2002.

Balinese bodies at work. British Ethno-musicological Forum, Annual Conference, November 2003.

The transformable body: exemplification and the senses in Bali . Dartmouth College NH. April 2004.

Imagining power: person and bodies in Balinese theatre . A Residency on power and performance, Williams College, MA April 2006.
Gender and embodiment in Balinese performance , A Residency on Theatrical bodies and persons in contemporary Bali, Yale University , April 2006.

These lecture-performances can be adapted for presentation at secondary schools.