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Who we are...
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(Photographed By Agus Leonardus www.galeri-9.com)
Cynthia C. Laksawana started learning Balinese
dance at age 8 with several Balinese dance masters at the art gallery of Nyoman Gunarsa in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She continued
her dancing study under the direction of ISI Professor Ni Nyoman Sudewi who organized dance school (sanggar tari) for children
at ASTI (now ISI) in Yogyakarta.
She persued her Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering from University of New Haven in Connecticut. Representing the Indonesian Students in Connecticut, she helped in chareographing Kecak Ramayana and presented
some Balinese traditional dances in several different International Nights in several universities.
When she came to Boston in 1993 pursuing her graduate study in Chemical
Engineering and Engineering Management at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, she had the opportunity to learn more Balinese dances from the renowned Balinese dance master/composer/singer
Desak Made Suarti Laksmi and her husband, Balinese Dance Master, I Nyoman Catra, the co-founders of Gamelan Galak Tika of
MIT at Cambridge, MA.
Cynthia has also had the opurtunity to learn dances from other Balinese
Master Dancers/Composers I Wayan Dibia, Ni Ketut Arini, Tjokorda Istri Putra Padmini and I Nyoman Cerita.
She has been performing with Gamelan Galak Tika throughout the years (since 1995) where she was voluntarily appointed as the dance director of the group until 2006. She has
been teaching many people who have interest in learning Balinese dances to keep the Balinese dances growing in Boston area
and to be the Indonesian arts and cultural ambassador. She is presently working as Validation Engineer at a Biotech company in
Boston area.
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