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Gamelan Sekar Jaya has videos on You Tube!
Gangsa kotekan from Taruna Jaya – Taruna Jaya Kotekan excerpt.
Oakland Museum of CA, June 2nd, 2007 – Sekar Jaya’s Jegog ensemble performing Jaran Dauh
Dance Palace, Pt Reyes Station April 21, 2007 – Sekar Jaya’s Angklung ensemble performs Palewakia with renowned dancer Ida Ayu Ketut Suciawani
West Berkeley Street Festival 2006 – Margapati with angklung ensemble, danced by Tjokorda Padmini.
Ethnic Dance Festival, SF 2005 – Excerpt from Kali Yuga with Ketut Rina and Ibu Arini
Ethnic Dance Festival, SF Part 2, 2005 – Excerpt from Kali Yuga with Ketut Rina
4 excerpts of Sekar Jaya with renowned guest artists from Bali.
I Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana is highly regarded internationally as an excellent performer and teacher of traditional Balinese instrumental music. A graduate of the Conservatory of Indonesian Musical Arts, he is a founding member of Gamelan Çudamani, one of the premiere gamelan troupes in Bali. Dewa has toured with Çudamani to the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy, and Greece. He is one of the core teachers of Çudamani’s educational programs in Bali. He has also taught gamelan to foreign students from the U.S., Canada, Japan, and the U.K. In early 2008, he was the Artist-in-Residence with the University of California, Santa Barbara Gamelan Ensemble.
• Sekar Jaya’s new dance drama, Kali Yuga: The Age of Chaos recently toured the East Coast with performances and residency activities at three university venues. GSJ sends its warmest thanks to the many friends, supporters, artists, and presenters who helped make this tour a reality.
• Milestone Films and UCLA released the DVD of UCLA’s restored print of the 1935 classic silent film, Legong: Dance of the Virgins. The DVD features the new score composed by Richard Marriott & I Made Subandi & performed by Gamelan Sekar Jaya & the Club Foot Orchestra. Essay GSJ commissioned for the DVD
Calendar
Saturday, May 3rd – 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
GSJ Performs at Humboldt State
GSJ Performs at Noe Valley Ministry
Saturday, May 24th – 1:00 PM – 2:30PM
GSJ Performs at Yerba Buena Gardens
Support GSJ
• If you would like to join Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s community of friends and supporters, your tax-deductible contribution will help immensely in supporting the guest residencies of some of Bali’s finest performing artists, a wide range of educational outreach programs, and the continued presentation of Balinese performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
We welcome contributions of any amount, but for contributions of $50 or more, we will send you our latest audio CD, Kali Yuga.
Checks may be made payable to Gamelan Sekar Jaya and sent to 6485 Conlon Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530. Call us at 510-237-6849 for more details and for additional benefits that accompany larger gifts.
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