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BALI KIDS - Classes in Music, Dance and Puppetry
January 27, 2013 - 11:00am - June 2, 2013 - 12:30pm

BALI KIDS
taught by Sarah Willner with Ni Ketut Arini & I Made Moja

Sundays 11:00-12:30pm
Session 1: 8 weeks
Start: Jan 27
End: March 17
Session 2: 7 weeks
Start: April 14
End: June 2 (Recital)

General $16/class || GSJ Member's kids $8/class

Balinese performing arts classes for children (age 6-13 years). Create shadow puppets and dramatic scenes based on Balinese and Hindu stories, play the gamelan orchestra, sing kecak (monkey chant), and practice dance.

GSJ Senior Member Sarah Willner works together with legendary master artist Ni Ketut Arini and senior member I Made Moja to teach this class. Sarah has taught Balinese performing arts to all ages for over 20 years, as well as teaching music to children and other teachers through the Orff Schulwerk approach.

Gamelan Gong Kebyar Class taught by Wayne Vitale—Sundays 10-11:30am
February 17, 2013 - 10:00am - June 2, 2013 - 11:30am

Ongoing Class Beginning February 17th
Class Fees: $12/session, if you pay in advance for 4 sessions ($48)
Drop in: $16/session || GSJ Members: $8/session
Cash and check happily accepted
Location: The Banjar: 3023 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705
*No Class: March 24th (for Gamelan Weekend Intensive); May 5th (for WARNA premiere)

Hands-on experience playing gamelan gong kebyar, Bali's most popular bronze percussion orchestra.

Material: You will be working on at least two of the following pieces:
   1) A semar pegulingan-style instrumental piece (similar to "Kompiang" which the students worked on last session, but shorter.)
   2) A kebyar-style dance piece.
   3) A newly-composed work designed to emphasize various techniques and textures.
Level: All levels welcome; Wayne will tailor the seating and learning rate as needed.
How to register: Just email Wayne - wayne(at)gsj(dot)org - that you'll be there; you can pay at the first session.

SAVE THE DATE! - Sekar Jaya in the Ethnic Dance Festival
June 14, 2013 - 10:00am - June 15, 2013 - 8:00pm

Sekar Jaya's dancers perform Tari Gabor, accompanied by bamboo rindik ensemble.
JUNE 15th & 16th at the Yerba Buena Center
INFO & TICKETS: http://www.worldartswest.org/main/home.asp

Tari Gabor is a modern arrangement of a traditional offering dance performed in the Balinese temple. Offering dances generally are performed in the most sacred, inner-courtyard of the temple, and directed towards the shrines which the gods are believed to inhabit for the duration of the ceremony. Tari Gabor may be presented in secular contexts as well, for example at the beginning of a concert program, where it is then referred to as a “dance of welcome,” intended as a gesture of goodwill to the audience and honored guests. Tari Gabor is most often danced to the music of the gamelan gong kebyar, a 25-person ensemble of bronze metallophones, gongs, drums and flutes. For the Ethnic Dance Festival Audition, Gamelan Sekar Jaya's recent Guest Music Director, I Dewa Putu Berata, has created an innovative musical arrangement for the gamelan rindik, a lively nine-person ensemble of bamboo marimbas, percussion, and flute, most often heard in secular village celebrations.

SF Silent Film Fest—Legong: Dance of the Virgins
July 20, 2013 (All day)

SAVE THE DATE!

San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Legong: Dance of the Virgins
With live score performed by Gamelan Sekar Jaya & Club Foot Orchestra

More Info & Tickets: http://www.silentfilm.org/pages/index/?catid=507

About the Film

LEGONG: DANCE OF THE VIRGINS
Plot Outline: In Bali, a young woman jumps to her death after being spurned by a young man, due
to the plotting of her half-sister.
Directed and Produced by.................Henri de la Falaise
Told by ................................................Henri de la Falaise and Gaston Glass
Cinematography by ...........................William H. Greene
Editing by ............................................Edward Schroeder
Titles by................................................Hampton Del Ruth
Music Supervisor ................................Abe Meyer
Orchestra Conductor..........................Sam K. Wineland
Production Company: ........................Bennett Pictures Corp. (Constance Bennett)
Distributed by .....................................DuWorld and Paramount International Corp.
Cast:
Poutou, the younger sister ................Goesti Poetoe Aloes
Nyoung, the gamelan musician ........Njoman Nyong
Poutou’s father ...................................Goesti Bagus Mara
Poutou’s sister Saplak ........................Njoman Saplak
Original distribution by Du World Pictures Inc. and Paramount Pictures. New York opening: October
1, 1935.
1935. Bali. Sound. 35mm. Runtime: 65 minutes. Language: English intertitles. Two-color Technicolor.
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive.

About the Restoration & New Score

A new score was composed, performed and recorded for the 1935 film, Legong, Dance of the Virgins. Composed by I Made Subandi (Guest Music Director of GSJ in 1999) and Richard Marriott (Musical Director of CF), the score was performed in New York and San Francisco to packed audiences and rave reviews. A studio recording was completed in 2001.

Legong: Dance of the Virgins was painstakingly reconstructed in 1992 by the UCLA Film and Television Archives using censored prints from the United States, Britain, and Canada. Originally distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation, the film was later duplicated and spliced with the remaining negatives of existing prints from Canada, England, and the United States, and ultimately restored to its complete length. The original, restored print was first shown at the 5th UCLA Festival of Preservation, on April 25, 1993.

The original score for the movie was composed in the style of its time with traditional Western instrumentation. The new score was composed using both Western and Balinese instruments and utilizes not only Balinese instrumentation and styling, but modern sounds and techniques as well.

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