There'll be a convergence of movement and music next week when students join faculty and guest artists in a performance of Balinese music and dance on Monday, Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m. at the Nott Memorial.
The free concert, sponsored by East Asian Studies and the Department of Music, will feature students in the Asian Percussion Workshop on Gamelan Gong Kebyar (Balinese orchestra), the Music and Culture of Bali class on Suling (Balinese flute) and select Union College dancers.
Among the special guests are I Nyoman (Komang) Astita, a faculty member at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, who is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Union this term.
A well-known performer and an expert gamelan player, Astita co-teaches the Asian Percussion Workshop with Music Professor Jennifer Matsue.
He holds a diploma in Music from the Denpasar Conservatory, a bachelor's degree in dance from the Dance Academy in Denpasar, and a master's of art in musicology from San Diego State University, California.
Other guests on the Balinese music program include Astita's brother, I Ketut Gede Asnawa, who teaches at University of Illinois Champaigne-Urbana; I Nyoman Saptanyana of the Indonesian Consulate; and Ayu Putu Niastarika (Tarika), Asnawa's daughter, a college student in Kansas who has long performed Balinese dance.
For more details, contact Matsue at 388-8075 or matsuej@union.edu.