On the 29th March 2008, Arti Foundation, in cooperation with Gamelan Sida Karya in Tokyo invited Jero Made Puspawati to a talk and demonstration session held at Studio Amrita in Kichijoi, Tokyo.
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The story of Sri Tanjung, originating from East Java, will be brought back to life as a dance-drama by the Arti Foundation. Wait for its premier performance in Bali scheduled in early 2009.
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Dr Brett Hough
Dr Brett Hough teaches Anthropology at Monash University specializing in the ethnography of Bali. He has long had a fascination with the performing arts of Java and Bali, in particular the vibrant topeng tradition of Bali. He studied topeng with I Ketut Kantor in the village of Batuan as part of his PhD research which was on the Collage of Indonesian Arts (STSI) during 1989-1991. The thesis which came out of the research examines the Collage and the processes of instituionalization and bureaucratisation within the wider context of nationalism and the culural politics of the New Order State. He returns to Bali on a regular basis to continue his research on the performing arts. Since 1998, he has ated as the Arti Foundation representative in Australia.
Mari Nabeshima
During her graduate studies at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Mari Nabeshima received a grant from the Ministry of Education in Japan to study at the Indonesian Art Institute (STSI) in Denpasar from 1997-1999, during which time she mastered the performing skills of the gender wayang under I Wayan Loceng from the village of Sukawati, and also carried out field work on the kidung, a repertoire of ritualistic singing in Bali. She received her Ph.D from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2006.
A.A. Ngurah Puspayoga
