Sekar Jaya brings the entire company to the Sierra Nevada Foothills!
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Doors at 6pm, Show from 7:30 to 10:00pm
Bring a picnic and the whole family!
North Columbia School House Cultural Center
17894 Tyler Foote Road
Nevada City, CA 95959 Map & Directions
* Do not use Mapquest, Google Maps, or any other on-line mapping service. They will send you the long, hard, dusty way.
Tickets || online Nevada City Box Office || by phone at 530-265-5463 || (available soon!)
Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a sixty-five member company of musicians and dancers based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali, Indonesia, returns with the entire company to the lovely outdoor amphitheater at North Columbia School House Cultural Center, nestled in the San Juan Ridge just 20 minutes from Nevada City. Led by master artists I Dewa Putu Berata and Emiko Saraswati Susilo, Sekar Jaya’s season finale performance will include traditional and newly created works on four distinct gamelan ensembles: the cutting-edge and extremely rare seven-toned bronze gamelan semarandana; the sweetly shimmering four-tone gamelan angklung; the delicate and virtuosic gendér wayang quartet; and the rare ensemble of gigantic bamboo marimbas, gamelan jegog. They will be joined by Sekar Jaya’s Balinese dance ensemble.
The performance, beginning with the gamelan angklung and gendér wayang, will unfold under dappled pinks and oranges of the sunset, framed by the towering pines that surround the amphitheater. Following intermission, the gamelan semerandana and gamelan jegog will move to the open field adjacent the historic Schoolhouse, true to the open-air settings used in traditional Balinese contexts, where groups often play within or in front of temple courtyards. The gamelan angklung and semarandana will feature three new compositions by I Dewa Putu Berata, two of them dance works with choreography by Emiko Saraswati Susilo. Other highlights include one of the most challengening pieces in Balinese repoirtoire—Legong Pengleb, a North Balinese masterpiece, and Joged, a flirtatious and celebratory social dance form that encourages audience participation.
Bring your picnic, lay out a blanket, and move freely to take in the performance from multiple perspectives, enjoy the complex interlocking rhythms and virtuosic ensemble sensibility of Balinese music and dance, and celebrate Sekar Jaya's season finale!
