In this series of one-hour classes, master dancer and GSJ Artist-In-Residence, Bapak I Made Suteja, will focus on the connection between dance and music in the Balinese tradition and how these two vocabularies work together in performance. More experienced students will begin to refine dance postures and deepen their understanding of how dance cues correlate with music. Prior experience with Balinese dance is required. Age 11 and up welcome.
$100/5 sessions, $25 drop-in
Sundays, April 12th - May 17th
2:30PM- 3:30PM
Bapak I Made Suteja
Bapak I Made Suteja is a master Balinese mask dancer, gamelan gambuh
practitioner, painter, and dedicated teacher from the Sukawati community in Bali,
Indonesia. Suteja graduated from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts. For the last ten years,
he has become well-known throughout Bali as an exceptional artist and
performer. He has been teaching both Balinese and foreign students regularly
for the last ten years, and frequently travels to Europe, the United States, and
Singapore to teach and perform. International students of Balinese dance travel from
far and wide to study intensively with Suteja, as he is an exacting, precise, and
expressive dancer with a far-reaching reputation.
