Music and dance from Indonesia
The Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has organised an event dedicated to Indonesian music and dance traditions.
On Saturday, May 22 an intercultural laboratory organized in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro La Fenice will take place at the Giorgio Cini Foundation. Such laboratory will be aimed at Venice middle school students, to provide them with the opportunity to explore the ancient Sundanese tradition (originally from Sunda, West Java), as practised and taught by teachers from the Bandung Indonesian Music and Dance Academy (STSI).
The teachers will also give a performance of music and dance on Sunday, May 23, at the Teatro Goldoni, Venice. Both the Indonesian workshop and performance have been organised thanks to collaboration between the Institute and the Bandung Academy, with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia and the City of Venice.
The Bandung Music and Dance Academy is one of the leading institutions for teaching music and dance in Indonesia. It is located in Sunda, an area in which courtly and popular music and dance developed in very refined, highly elaborate specific forms, which are little known in the West. Around thirty performers will take part in a show that combines some traditional forms of spectacle (court music and dance, dance for theatre with topeng masks) with more modern forms crossed over with other genres, including even jazz.
Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati
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e-mail: musica.comparata@cini.it
