When Juliet Burnett smiles, the full gloriousness of her high-cheekbones and angular face are both feline and balletic, not dissimilar to the finely boned, regal faces of Javanese dancers. Her facial ...

Watch as master Javanese dancers Urip Sri Maeny and Pamardi Tjiptopradonggo perform pieces from the classical court tradition of central Java, as well as a new work reflecting modern dance innovations ...

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Forty years and classical Javanese dance studio Padnecware is still going strong. A number of women often eagerly practice Javanese dances on the third floor of the Jakarta Arts Institute (IKJ). On ...

he Padneçwara dance company commemorated its 43 rd anniversary with a performance of Kumolo Bumi on Oct. 11 and 12 at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta (GKJ). Said to be the most recent and longest version of ...

In conjunction with a visit from Hamengkubuwono X, the Sultan of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, Asia Society hosts a performance by the court dancers and musicians of Yogyakarta. The Keraton of Yogyakarta ...

Gamelan Kusuma Laras presents an evening of Javanese music for the public in the klenengan format. An informal music event in Java, a klenèngan features musicians who gather for a kind of jam session, ...

When it comes to the classics, dance teacher Rini Widiastuti is a stickler for tradition. She says she has no time for her fellow Indonesians who have been trying to “modify” Javanese dance costumes ...

Are you familiar with Radin Mas? I mean, the legendary Javanese princess, not the neighbourhood or school of the same name. No? Don't worry, you're not alone. Apparently, not many Singaporeans know ...

It was Debussy who once famously said of Javanese gamelan music that it “makes Palestrina seem like child’s play”. He is just one of several Western composers, from the late 19th century to the ...