Balinese dance in San Francisco June 28-29, 2008

You don't have to travel all the way to Indonesia to see fine Balinese dance. If you live in the Bay Area and have never been to the Ethnic Dance Festival, you are missing the year's most uplifting and gorgeous pageant of ethnic dance.

This year the Balinese group Gadung Kasturi ("Fragrance of the Gadung flower") is performing a masked dance, Tari Topeng Telek, on weekend four of the festival, June 28-29, 2008. They will be accompanied by a live gamelan orchestra featuring visiting master musician I Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana. This performance presents a battle between white masked temple guardians ("the good guys") and angry, red-faced demons ("the bad guys").

For more information about the festival visit http://www.worldartswest.org/main/home.asp
For more information about Gadung Kasturi visit http://www.gadungkasturi.org/

Photo by R J Muna