Bali Jaladara is an Indonesian NGO dedicated to preserve and promote Balinese traditional ways of expression as well as to explore new ones, while creating paths for meaningful artistic exchange for Indonesian artists, teachers and students with their counterparts from around the world.
VISION
Bali Jaladara aims to strengthen the character of our community by implementing educational programs based on Balinese music, dance, literature, culture and philosophy.
MISSION
To develop customised training courses and workshops for children, teenagers and adults.
To inspire and develop creativity through training, using the performing arts as a media.
To protect, conserve, develop and explore the traditional Balinese arts and culture. To keep them alive and evolving.
To deliver lectures and seminars.
To provide consulting.
To research and discover rare and endangered Balinese art forms and pass them on to the younger generations.
To conserve Balinese ancestral knowledge.
To showcase Balinese performing arts around the world.
To inspire and develop creativity through training, using the performing arts as a media.
To protect, conserve, develop and explore the traditional Balinese arts and culture. To keep them alive and evolving.
To deliver lectures and seminars.
To provide consulting.
To research and discover rare and endangered Balinese art forms and pass them on to the younger generations.
To conserve Balinese ancestral knowledge.
To showcase Balinese performing arts around the world.
WHO WE ARE
Wayan Rachman and Dewidiari Rachman
Artists by heart, Wayan and Dewidiari decided early on in their lives to actively participate in the preservation of the cultural identity of the “island of the gods”. Their island: Bali.
Artists by heart, Wayan and Dewidiari decided early on in their lives to actively participate in the preservation of the cultural identity of the “island of the gods”. Their island: Bali.
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Wayan Rachman has studied, taught, and performed throughout Bali and Java as well as in Turkey and the United States, where he completed an undergraduate degree in anthropology and a Masters degree in ethnomusicology.
In America, he has taught at Southern Methodist University, the University of Illinois, Swarthmore College, Shenandoah University, Cabrini College, and Gettysburg College. In Bali, he has taught at the Center for World Music's Indonesian Encounters programs, the SMU-in-Bali programs, and the Goucher College Bali ICA. A beloved mentor and teacher, Wayan is an emerging leader who has dedicated his life to sustaining his community and culture. He teaches many types of traditional Balinese music, including gamelan angklung, gong kebyar, baleganjur, joged bumbung, gender wayang, rindik, kecak, and kendang. He lectures on Balinese music as it relates to nationalism, religion, ideology, ritual, colonialism, and tourism, and is active in NGO work regarding land use and agriculture. |
Dewidiari Rachman’s outstanding career as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and performer reached an international level after graduating at the top of her class at the Balinese STSI, Indonesia Performing Art College. Since then, she has mastered the traditional, classical Balinese dances as well as the contemporary ones and her talent has been celebrated around Indonesia as much as around the world.
She has been invited to perform in Japan, China, Vietnam, Canada, Singapore and the United States of America. Her impeccable reputation, her worldly experience and her graceful skills have been acknowledged and rewarded with unique opportunities. She has performed at the President’s Palace in Jakarta, at the Andong International Mask Dance Festival in South Korea -where she was awarded with the competition’s third price-, at the Bali Art Festival, at various temple ceremonies around Bali among other renown venues. |
