Venue: Zellerbach Hall
Price: $24/$34/$46
Subscription Series: Choose-Your-Own, Winter World Stage Mini-Series
The 31 young virtuoso dancers and musicians of renowned gamelan ensemble Çudamani enchanted international audiences at their U.S. debut in 2002 at the World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles and at the 2003 Cultural Olympiad in Greece. Considered a national treasure in their native Bali, Çudamani is dedicated to performing, and thereby preserving, a diverse and rich repertoire of centuries-old rare classical Balinese legong and kebyar dances and instrumental compositions, most notably the rarely heard seven-pitch orchestrations that were once the traditional music of the Balinese court. The troupe's brilliant performers bring the Balinese universe to life, "working together with stunning cohesion...as superbly coordinated and as compellingly entertaining as any Western ballet performance," says the Los Angeles Times.
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Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.
Education and Community Events: Sightlines event: Fri. Apr 1, 7-7:30 pm, ZH — Pre-performance talk with the artists, moderated by Wayne Vitale, director of Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Related Performances:
Seasons of Migration: Dance & Music from Cambodia
Gods, Goddesses & Ancestors: Music, Dance & Rituals from Kerala, India
Artists links:
Çudamani official site
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