The Soul of West Java

THE SOUL OF WEST JAVA
Indonesian classical and contemporary dance and music
Accademia Nazionale delle Arti di Bandung

23 maggio 2010, ore 20.30
Teatro Goldoni, Venezia
Free entrance

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.