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Female Masked Dance (Topèng Pajegan Istri)

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Forthcoming Performances

17th. May An evening of Balinese Topèng Dance - Dartington College of Arts, Devon (for details email madeleine.anna@googlemail.com)
7th. June Javanese Dance with Southbank Gamelan Players - Durham (details to be announced)
25th. July Balinese Dance - Concert in Marseille
26-27th. July Balinese Dance - Concerts in Cassis
24th. October Javanese Dance Performance - West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge (for further information on performance and dance workshops, email Robert Campion robertcampion@tinyonline.co.uk)
Autumn 2008 A new tour of Tasher Desh - for details see FIPA's calendar of events

 

Forthcoming Workshops

7th. May Balinese Dance Workshop - Homerton Library, Hackney
18th. May Workshop on Masked Dance - Dartington College
23rd.May Workshop on Masked Theatre - Sherman Cymru

 

Forthcoming Choreographies

Ni Madé Pujawati is currently working on four new choreographies

 

Jocasta and Oedipus - A reworking of part of the myth of Oedipus to specially composed music by I Nengah Susila. Ni Madé Pujawati's choreography reinterprets the story in the light of Balinese ideas of power and roles. Here Jocasta is the queen and Oedipus simply yet another macho young man, proud of the murder he has just committed, who aims to further his ambitions by ingratiating himself with the queen with terrifying consequences.

 
Candra Kontemporer - a contemporary dance mixing Indonesian and contemporary styles. It reworks the story of Javanese story of Candra Kirana deserted on the eve of her wedding who becomes a warlord and sets off to find out what happened to her fiancé. It returns to thenold Indonesiantradition of portraying women as powerful and independent figures.

 
Panji Panca Muka - The five faces of Panji - Most Javanese and Balinese dance represents successful royal princes as handsome, brave and good. Using the legendary figure of Prince Panji, Ni Madé Pujawati challenges these romanticized accounts and points out that such powerful males have hidden, dangerous and treacherous faces. The choreography will be to a new score by I Nengah Susila drawing upon a range of Indonesian music, from Java and Bali to Papua.

 
Inu Kertapati - a contemporary co-choreography with I Nyoman Sura. Using a classical Javanese tale, this piece questions our ideas of romance by suggesting what we know from literature was written by men. So I Nyoman Sura is choreographing a duet as imagined by the male and Ni Madé Pujawati is going to counter-choreograph an alternative vision as seen by the woman. The result is an anti-romantic duet.
 

 

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Putri Bambu on Gamelan Jegog by Yayasan Suar Agung Bali
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