Education

1991-97 STSI Denpasar (The Indonesian Academy of Performing Arts, now Institute of Arts ).

1987-91 KOKAR Denpasar (Konservatori Karawitan Indonesia , The Indonesian Conservatory of Music).

Qualifications

1997 Sarjana Seni (Batchelor of Arts with distinction).

Publications and positions held

2001 Arja: theatre where women rule. Seleh notes 8, 3: 1, 8-10 (with Mark Hobart).

2000 Ni Madé Pujawati: an interview with Gill Roberts. Seleh notes 7, 2:1-2.

Positions

2004-6 Coordinator for international Balinese Arja touring group.

2003-6 Researcher and choreographer, Interpreting and (re)constructing dance and music heritage , AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance.

2003- Artistic director, Gamelan Puja Semara Kanti , SOAS, University of London .

2002- Artistic director, UK-based Balinese dance group Lila Bhawa.

2001- Dancer in residence, Gamelan Lila Cita , City University , London .

 

Teaching

Workshops and Classes

Schools (since 2003) include -

The International School Geneva: workshops on Sendratari (mass ballet) and Kècak (vocal chant)

The International School, Kingston-upon-Thames workshops on Balinese shadow theatre (Wayang) and Kècak

Master Classes for ISTA (The International Schools Theatre Association) at Stratford-upon-Avon on Sendratari (mass ballet) and Kècak

Skinners Company School for Girls Stamford Hill; Slough Grammar School; Chelmsford County High School for Girls; Clapton Girls' Technology College

London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Programme - several one-day workshops and series of classes

Full details of past workshops in primary and secondary schools on request: madepuja@aol.com

 

Colleges and Arts' Institutions

Stratford Upon Avon College , Dance Studio

Enfield Dance Forum

 

University-Level Work

The British Museum Diploma in Asian Art: Special Course on Balinese Dance

Introductory and Intermediate Balinese dance classes, Music Department SOAS, University of London (2002-2003)

Introductory and Intermediate Balinese dance classes, SOAS (1999- )

Sanggar Krisna, Tegallalang, teaching Légong Kraton, Panyembrama, Manukrawa, Belibis, Puspawresti, Tedung Sari, Yudapati. ( 1987-1999)

 

Classes, Workshops, Residencies include

Contemporary Balinese dance technique. 19th. London International Workshop Festival September 2006.

Indonesian dance make-up. 19th. London International Workshop Festival September 2006.

Power and Performance . Yale University Residency, April 2006 –workshops/classes included:

Gender and Embodiment in Balinese Performance , Lecture-Demonstration

From Page to Stage – improvisation in Balinese theatre . Workshop

Theatrical Bodies and Persons in Contemporary Bali . Williams College Residency, April 20061 – workshops/classes included:

Imagining Power, Persons and Bodies in Balinese Theatre , Lecture-Demonstration

Oedipus rex in two traditions. Rethinking Greek classics in Indonesia . Workshop

The movement vocabulary of Arja . Workshop.

How creative are the Balinese performing arts? Hamilton College , NY . April 2006.

 

Panels, papers and performances at conferences include

Rethinking the Body in Indonesian Dance. Conference on Rethinking Practice and Theory. Centre Nationale de la Danse, Paris, June 2007.

Sound Moves (with Chitra Sundaram) November 2005;

AHRC conference April 2005;

Performance, Aesthetics, Critique: Balinese Theater & Dance in The 21 st . Century . Residency at Williams College , MA April 2005.

The transformable body: Exemplification and the Senses in Bali (with Dr Mark Hobart) Dartmouth College NH ;

The body in musical performance , British Forum for Ethnomusicology, November 2003;

Researching Lègong (with Dr Alessandra Lopez) ,

Virtuosity and Performance Mastery , Middlesex University June 2003;

How creative are the Balinese performing arts? (with Dr Mark Hobart) Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Venice International University , Venezia May 2002.

University of Surrey workshop on Balinese dance; Royal Holloway, University of London , workshop on Balinese masked drama and dance 2003

Residencies on Classical and Contemporary Balinese dance, and contemporary Javanese dance for the AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance at SOAS, University of London , and Roehampton University .

 

Performances and Choreography

Selected Performances

Balinese classical dance

2006 Lègong Kuntul , New York , Theatre and on tour.

2005 Olèg Tamulilingan , Performance Studies International Special Performance, Brown University , Providence RI .

2004 Tarunajaya , LSO Jerwood Hall, St. Luke's.

2003 Newbury Festival Silver Anniversary Tari Lepas with the Lila Bhawa Dance Group, The Corn Exchange.

2003 Panyembrama, Olèg Tamulilingan , LSO Jerwood Hall, St. Luke's.

2002 Tour of Italy ( Pavia , Mantova, Venezia) performing tari lepa.s

2000- Regular performances of range of tari lepas (virtuoso dance) with my own dance group, Lila Bhawa, in the UK .

2000 Panyembrama, Tarunajaya in Island hopping: Javanese and Balinese gamelan , Queen Elizabeth Hall.

1993-99 Condong, Puspawresti , Sekaha Teges Kanginan; Condong & Patih Madri in Calon Arang , Sekar Sari Andong .

1978-93 Panyembrama, Terunajaya, Manukrawa, Belibis, Puspawresti, Danurdara, Tedungsari, Yudapati , Céndrawasih Sekaha Br. Pèjèngaji.

Balinese contemporary dance

2006 Candra Kirana (chor: Ni Madé Pujawati) and Jayaprana International Bali Arts Festival

2004 Subali Sugriwa choreographed by Professor I Wayan Dibia.

2003 Jayaprana at Resolutions! The Place and at the LSO St Luke's (chor. Ni Madé Pujawati).

Balinese Theatre - Arja

2005 Condong (lady-in-waiting) in special performance of Katemu ring Tampaksiring at the International Bali Arts Festival (available from Bali Records)

2005 Tour of USA , Galuh (princess) including at the Performance Studies International conference.

1995-99 Condong and Galuh (princess) with main Arja dance troupes in Bali , including state radio (RRI).

Javanese classical dance

2007 Gambyong Paréanom & Golèk Lambang Sari - Overture: three days of festivals to celebrate the re-opening of the Southbank, London

2006 Gambyong Pareanom & Gambiranom , International Gamelan Festival, Bremen.

2005 Sinta in Javanese Ramayana! Parts 3 & 4 at Queen Elizabeth Hall; Aldeburgh Festival and The Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

2005 Gambyong Paréanom on tour of Eire.

2004 Gambyong Paréanom and Sinta in Javanese Ramayana! Part 2 at Queen Elizabeth Hall; Padua.

2003 Sinta in Javanese Ramayana! Part 1 at Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Contemporary Javanese dance

2005 Free form dance – 2 months' residency with Bambang Besur Suryono, AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance.

Cross-Cultural dance

2005 Various roles in Bharatanatyam, Balinese & Javanese of the Astadigpala and Ramayana (choreographers Chitra Sundaram, I Wayan Dibia, Ni Madé Pujawati) Sound Moves International Conference (Princeton and Roehampton Universities ).

2003 Phaeda in Thiasos' production of Hippolytos in UK and USA tour, using Greek song and Sundance, Javanese and Balinese choreography.

Television

1997 Condong in Arja Penabuh Remaja Singapadu .

1996 Galuh in Prémbon Darma Duta Pèjèng Gianyar .

1996 Condong in Prémbon Darma Duta Pèjèng Gianyar .

1995 Singing Tembang : Manusayadnya with Pesantian Kusara Jenggala, Tegallalang.

1992 Siti Sundari , Séndratari STSI in Bali Arts Festival.

.Recent choreography

Current Panji Panca Muka – The five faces of Panji

Current Inu Kertapati – an unromantic duet

Current Candra Kontemporer – a contemporary dance version of the Candra Kirana story

2006 Candra Kirana – a Javanese-Balinese feminist choreography based on the Malat story of Princess Candra Kirana.

2005 Tari Panyambutan – a dance for young dancers

2005 Astadigpala – a Balinese interpretation

2005 Tari Burung – a children's dance

2004 Tari Kijang – a children's dance

2003 Jayaprana – a contemporary Balinese version of a classical Balinese geguritan (epic poem).