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Calendar of Events
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| Cynthia Laksawana, Coreographer/Dancer for Women Networking Musician at Berklee College of Music |
Upcoming Performance
February 11th 2008, 8:00PM, Roger Williams University, The Performing Arts Center (located on the
University's Bristol campus at One Old Ferry Road), Bristol, Rhode Island
Performing a Balinese traditional
dance with Gamelan Galak Tika.
The event is free and open for public. Roger Williams University link: http://www.rwu.edu/newsandevents/news/gamelan020408.htm
Past Performances
List of Activities in 2007
Friday, November 18th 2007; 8:00 PM Thursday, July 12th 2007 at Brook Concert
Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Performed with Gamelan Gita Sari in Kecak dance presenting an episode from
the Ramayana.
Thursday, July 12th 2007 at 6PM - Lantern Festival
Reception at the Forest Hill Cemetery Lantern Festival Reception, 5 to 7 PM
Come early to
a festive open-air reception. Enjoy elegant refreshments, have a calligrapher inscribe your shade, experience traditional
Balinese dance, and take a trolley over to the Lake. Support the festival and avoid the crowds; includes VIP parking. Admission:
$40 for adults/$20 for children 16 and under. Order tickets
by phone at 617.524.3354 or send an email to:tickets@foresthillstrust.org with your daytime telephone and the number of tickets you would like, and someone will get
back to you. Click HERE for the link to the Forest Hill Cemetery calendar.
Saturday, May 5th 2007 at 8PM
Perform with Gamelan Galak Tika - World Music Weekend at the Broad Institute
7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
General Admission $12, Student/Seniors/MIT & Harvard Community $8, MIT
& Harvard Students and Children under 12 FREE
Friday, April 27th 2007 at 8PM - Brooks Concert Hall,
Holy Cross College, Worchester, MA
Perform with Gamelan Gita Sari at their semi annual Spring concert under
the directionship of I Wayan Dibia. Click HERE for press release.
Open for public and FREE.
List of Activities in 2006
May 28th and 31st 2006 - Give
Balinese dance workshop at the Darmouth College NH. Together with the students of Jody Diamond, present part of the Ramayana
story as part of the class final project.
GONGS & SHADOWS, DANCE & CHANTS
"The Ominous Wishes of
Queen Kekayi"
a performance by students of
AMES 18: History and Culture of Indonesia
directed by Jody Diamond
Wednesday,
May 31, Faulkner Auditorium, Hopkins Center
12:30 - 1:30
FREE
March
18th 2006 - Perform with Gamelan Galak Tika (www.galaktika.org) on Saturday at 7:30pm at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport MA (www.rcmf.org) at Rockport High School Performing Arts Center
24 Jerdens Lanem Rockport
March 12th 2006 - Perform
with Gamelan Galak Tika on Sunday at 3:00 pm at the Jewett Art Center in Wellesley College, Wellesley MA.
Cynthia Laksawana danced Kebyar Duduk with Gamelan Galak Tika at Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine (Photo:
courtesy of Windy Setiadi)
List of Activities in 2005
March 3 2005- UNICEF-UNICHEFS
Tsunami Victims Fundraising Event Bay Tower 33rd Floor, 60 State Street, Boston, MA. The event collected $250,000.
March 10 - Song's Nothing Conservatory About It Concert Series Women Musicians
Network Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.
Presented a dance "Nuku Pari" (short version). Choreographed by
Cynthia Laksawana, music composed by Dewa Alit, and gamelan played by Windy Setiadi, Aaron Wolesley, and Sean Manion.
"Nuku Pari" protrayed the activity of harvesting rice. The dance started by a female farmer walking happily
in a beatiful morning toward the rice field to be harversted. Arrived at the field, she saw some birds eating the seeds
and she hurrily drove them away. With joy, she cut the rice stems and tied them in bundels.
March 20 - Pagelaran Seni Indonesia: A Tsunami Victims Fundraising Event at Northeastern
University Main Auditorium, Boston, MA. Danced for Gamelan Galak Tika.
March
26 - Annual International Folk Festival of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
Presented dance "Nuku
Pari." The long version of "Nuku Pari" was chareographed for this event. The same dance as the short version,
but then more movements were added to potray the process of separating the rice seeds from the stems by whamming the stems
inside "lumbu" (long wodden carved to place the rice stems) with long wooden stick.
June
- July - The 27th Annual Bali Art Festival in Bali Indonesia.
Together with Gamelan Galak Tika, spent 2
weeks in Bali Tour as part of the 27th Annual Bali Art Festival (Pekan Kesenian Bali yang ke-27). Galak Tika performed
in 4 Villages (Ubud, Negara, Singaraja, and Kuta) and in Art Center in Denpasar. Together with her teahcer Desak Made
Suarti Laksmi, Cynthia danced Semara Wisaya.
July 19 - Brookline
Community Center for the Arts (BCCA) (http://www.bccaonline.com) Community Meeting at Devotion School in Brookline, MA.
Introduced the Balinese dance, Cynthia Laksawana
performed the Tarunajaya. She will also be teaching Balinese dance at the BCCA.
August 27 - Muticultural Extravaganza Fundraising Night by Sunday
Project in Providence Rhode Island. Sunday Project is an organization dedicated to the support of Liberians with war
related trauma and disabilities (http://www.sundayproject.org). Cynthia Laksawana presented Tarunajaya dance and Joshua Utomo presented the Javanese Shadow Puppet.
September 10 - Evening of learning the Indonesian Culture in Lasell
Village - Lasell Collge the unique living and learning retirement home (http://www.lasellvillage.com).
The event was opened by Panyembrama dance by Cynthia Laksawana. Continued with 20 minutes Javanese
puppet show by Joshua Utomo and closed by the presentation of Taruna Jaya dance by Cynthia Laksawana. Q&A session
followed after the performances.
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