In “Cup of Java: Javanese Dance Voices,” the line between music and performance is blurred. Showing in Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., the performance will ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

SINGAPORE: Practitioners of kuda kepang, the traditional hobby horse dance, are drawing on the ancient Javanese dance’s performance roots to keep it alive in Singapore. Hoping to bring a centuries-old ...

Inside a large room in the School of Music building on North Campus, the rhythmically timed sounds of percussion thump. It’s a soft, melodious music, and distinct from anything else one might happen ...

On Sunday, April 23, Buffalo’s Nusantara Arts will treat us to a spectacular Sunday afternoon of Javanese shadow puppetry unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. These Javanese Wayang ...

Gamelan: The term gamelan refers to musical ensembles from the islands of Java and Bali in the Republic of Indonesia, and by extension to the music that is played on them. Javanese gamelan consists ...

'An explosive mixture of formal Javanese dance and wild movement' (New York Times), Diponegoro is a dance theater work depicting the 19th century Javanese prince and Muslim mystic who led a rebellion ...

Ria Soemardjo, with Australian and Indonesian cultural backgrounds, began learning about gamelan and Javanese songs in her childhood through her father. From this experience, she went on to deepen her ...