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  • Preview for SERASI “…For 30 years, Oakland’s 50-member-strong Gamelan Sekar Jaya has maintained a fluid link with Indonesia, stocking the orchestra with top gamelan artists from that country. Now it’s time to celebrate with an anniversary show highlighting a host of guest musicians and dancers from Bali…”
    —Sun, May 17, 2009 This Week, The Chronicle, David Rubien

Balinese Dance Class on Sundays

On break for summer. Classes will resume in Fall 09

Gamelan Sekar Jaya has videos on You Tube!

Dance Palace, Pt Reyes Station April 21, 2007 – Sekar Jaya’s Angklung ensemble performs Palewakia with renowned dancer Ida Ayu Ketut Suciawani

Oakland Museum of CA, June 2nd, 2007 – Sekar Jaya’s Jegog ensemble performing Jaran Dauh

Coming in the Fall

I Made Arnawa I Made Arnawa, will join GSJ as Guest Music Director for the Fall 09 season. Arnawa is a prolific composer, performer, and teacher. He comes from the village of Tunjuk in West Bali, widely known for its traditions in music, dance, and shadow puppet theater. A senior faculty member at ISI Denpasar, Bali’s National Institute of the Arts, he has performed and taught internationally, including tours to Australia, India, several European countries, and the U.S. He has composed extensively for Balinese gamelan, especially in the forms kreasi baru and lelambatan, and has won numerous awards in the annual Bali Arts Festival. His most recent works are innovative in nature, exploring new textures, meters, and forms.

Emiko Saraswati Susilo Emiko Saraswati Susilo, will join GSJ as guest dance director for the Fall 09 season. She is a dancer, singer, and musician born in Honolulu and raised in Los Angeles. The daughter of esteemed Javanese musician Hardja Susilo and dancer/arts presenter Judy Mitoma, she was surrounded by great artists from a young age. Ten years ago she became a founding member of Çudamani, a Balinese arts school and performing company dedicated to the study of traditional arts and also to providing a place for young artists to experiment with creative work. Now Assistant Director, she is responsible for organizing Çudamani’s international projects and for developing curriculum for Çudamani’s music and dance programs.

• 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

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Wayne Vitale
Director, GSJ 510-655-1227

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Calendar

Sept 5 – GSJ & Pasaka Sunda at Yerba Beuna Gardens Festival

Oct 10 – GSJ returns to Julia Morgan Theater for 30th birthday

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SUPPORT US — a collaboration with Destiny Arts

GSJ was awarded a grant from the East Bay Community Foundation, supporting an exciting new project that will engage Sekar Jaya’s dance program in an artistic exchange with Oakland-based organization, Destiny Arts. The project will focus on two outstanding dancers from very different traditions— Emiko Saraswati Susilo (GSJ artist-in-residence) and Rashidi Omari Byrd (dancer/teacher from Destiny Arts). Together they will choreograph a new cross-cultural dance work, bringing together Balinese and other Indonesian dance forms with hip hop, urban folk dance, and related US-based dance styles.

This EBCF award requires a 1:1 match from individual contributors. We’ve raised $2300 but still have another $2700 to go. We hope that you will seize the opportunity to support this new-fangled cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary project in Oakland’s community. All contributions are fully tax deductible.

Will you help us raise the match for this artistic exchange?

Checks may be made payable to: Gamelan Sekar Jaya
4803 Shattuck Ave, Oakland CA 94609

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