For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

Brief but brilliant solo dances are one of life’s extraordinary pleasures. Interaction between performers at the top of their game is another. At Highways in Santa Monica on Thursday there was a taste ...

The idea behind UCLA’s enterprising Asia Pacific Performance Exchange is to bring together Asian and American musicians, dancers and performance artists in a six-week workshop so new pieces, ideas and ...

On Sunday, April 23, Buffalo’s Nusantara Arts will treat us to a spectacular Sunday afternoon of Javanese shadow puppetry unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. These Javanese Wayang ...

A gamelan is a group of musical instruments — ones steeped in thousands of years of Javanese and Balinese tradition and built and tuned as a unified harmonic ensemble. Each gamelan is unique, and ...

Ria Soemardjo, with Australian and Indonesian cultural backgrounds, began learning about gamelan and Javanese songs in her childhood through her father. From this experience, she went on to deepen her ...