Thirty-third Annual World Music Workshop in Bali for 2004 with optional week-long cultural tour to Central Java Dr. Robert E. Brown Director

Bali Workshop 2004 General Information

Group departure is via Japan Airlines from Los Angeles on July 19, with a free overnight in Narita. The program at Flower Mountain begins on July 22, with four days of cultural orientation, including some opportunities to explore Bali independently or in small groups. Formal classes begin on Monday, July 26, and end on Friday, August 6.

Starting on Sunday evening before the second full week of classes begins, all participants will be able to attend nightly performances of rare varieties of Balinese music, dance, and theater at the Third Annual Payangan Festival in Payangan village, near to Flower Mountain. The festival overlaps the workshop program from August 1-8, and is a part of the cultural immersion being planned for those who attend the workshop. During the final Saturday and Sunday, on August 7 and 8, workshop participants will offer their own performances as part of the festival's World Music Weekend.

Tuition for the Bali workshop is $2,495, all-inclusive, with a limited number of small dormitory style rooms at Flower Mountain available on a first-come, first-served basis. Those who wish to stay in nearby Ubud, with its many restaurants, museums, nightly performances, shopping, and other attractions, must pay an additional supplement for their upgraded accommodations (prices, to be announced in January, are still very reasonable). Daily taxi fares to and from Flower Mountain are estimated at about $2, with sharing.

International departures on JAL from New York or Chicago can be arranged for an additional fee. Return dates are flexible, but should be finalized before departure from the United States.

An optional cultural tour to Central Java departs on August 9 and returns on August 15. The fee for this popular add-on is $450, which covers all costs but lunch and some dinners. Included in the tour are a sunrise visit with one of Java's best guides to the thousand-year-old Borobudur, the world's largest Buddhist monument, the Prambanan temple complex, with its exquisite reliefs of the Ramayana legend, a village shadow play and dinner with the puppeteer's family, and, given sufficient enrollment, a memorable evening of gamelan, classical Javanese dance, and an elegant dinner at the Mangkunegaran Palace in Surakarta, hosted by a member of the royal family.

Bali Workshop 2004 Detailed Information

Since 1971, the Center for World Music has offered a variety of unique opportunities to study the performing arts of Indonesia in their cultural context, often with a format that includes instruction in a number of other performance areas of world music, dance, and theater.

The 2004 workshop program has been designed to appeal especially to the needs and interests of:

	1. College professors who wish to expand their general knowledge of the field of world music and related arts, or who have in mind the idea of gathering materials for use in a course in that area.
2. Schoolteachers who might like to introduce their pupils to some hands-on music making with a global perspective, or who wish to amplify courses in social studies with lively examples from world performances arts.
	3. Graduate or undergraduate students who are interested to initiate some fieldwork involving an intense but wide-ranging experience in the performance of world music, dance, or theater.
4. Professional musicians, dancers, and puppeteers, or almost anyone who would enjoy undertaking guided cross-cultural experiences with skilled leaders in a fascinating and rich multicultural environment in Bali.
	5. Percussionists who desire to combine a broad encounter in world percussion with concentrated study and the chance to purchase drums or gamelan instruments at special discounted local prices.

6. Children, accompanied by responsible adults who would like to expose them to world performance and visual arts, in a context where they would also be able to interact with Balinese children of their own age.

Children and adult students follow separate programs, with the children's program centered in Ubud village, where there are museums, art classes, and other areas of interest. The children will also participate in special hands-on sessions with a group of children in Payangan, with whom the Center has had an ongoing summer teaching project for a number of years. The groups listed above share certain courses, but also have special events or classes focused on their various professional interests.

The Bali workshop unfolds in four stages:

1. Orientation. This is highly recommended and provides a chance to explore Bali and its culture, in both organized and more relaxed independent ways, as well as to recover from jet lag while adjusting to a radically different time zone (where day becomes night) before beginning the highly structured two-weeks workshop. There will be organized trips to Batur crater and temple and to traditional villages of East Bali, a chance to sample the different varieties of music, dance, and theater that will be taught in the main session, and to get acquainted with the teachers, to sample the museums, nightly performances, and gourmet restaurants of the nearby cultural center of Ubud, as well as to pick up a little basic Indonesian, one of the easiest languages to approach at an entry level. There will also be sufficient time to lie on the beach for those who wish to do so or to explore the island by local transport for those preferring to strike out on their own. Although a later U. S. departure can be arranged for those workshop participants unable to afford the extra time for the orientation, experience has shown that it can greatly enhance the experience of the following two weeks of intensive study. Departure is from Los Angeles on Monday, July 19, arriving in Bali on Wednesday evening, July 21. Two days of programmed orientation follow, with Saturday and Sunday available for optional organized tours or free time exploration. Breakfast and lunch will be available at Flower Mountain as needed, with evening meals and performances in Ubud or elsewhere. During the four days of the orientation participants may also have opportunities to attend some of the final events in the month-long Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar. Those unable to afford the time for the orientation will be able to depart Los Angeles on Thursday, July 22, arriving on Saturday night, July 24. There is no additional charge for the orientation program, nor is there a refund for those who choose not to take part in it.

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2. Classes. These are organized from morning through late afternoon, five days a week, for two weeks, and individuals can select from an array of possibilities. Three delicious meals a day are available as needed. Participants can decide to concentrate on one or two main areas, or to explore a wide variety of music, dance, or shadow theater traditions. Besides courses in Balinese, Javanese, and Sundanese (West Java) performing arts, instruction is expected to be given in African music and dance, Indian music and dance, Middle Eastern and Turkish music, early European music, and possibly in some additional areas. Evenings and the initial weekend are free during the first week, with classes meeting Monday through Friday, July 26-30. During the second week of classes, August 2-6, rare traditions of Balinese music, dance and theater are offered in evening concerts in the village as part of the Payangan Festival, which is free of charge to enrollees. For the final weekend of the Festival, August 7 and 8, workshop members will participate in festival performances of world music and dance.

3. Payangan Festival. This year, in addition to rare performances of traditional gamelan music, the 2004 Pesta Payangan will showcase old forms of Balinese dance and theater throughout a whole week of evening performances. During the final World Music Weekend, a yearly symposium on The Role of Tradition in the Twenty-first Century will continue, and a second symposium on a topic yet to be selected will be held. As in previous years, participants in the Center for World Music workshop will offer a varied program of world music and dance in the final weekend of the Festival, drawing upon their own professional expertise, as well as a range of performances prepared during the course of the workshop.

4. Java Tour. The Center has offered a Java Tour on a yearly basis for more than thirty years now. It is only an hour's flight to Yogyakarta in Central Java, and the opportunity to experience another major cultural area of Indonesia is one that has been much enjoyed and appreciated by past participants. This year's tour is for a full week, providing sufficient time to see monuments like the thousand-year-old Borobudur and Prambanan temples, to attend several performances and demonstrations in village and palace, meet leading artists and generally experience the rich Javanese culture in some depth. Offered as an option following the Bali workshop, it allows tour members o make a direct connection with a return flight to the U.S. on Sunday night, or, if desired, to spend up to one month longer vacationing in Indonesia.

Tuition and Fees

General Tuition - $2,495

The Center operates as a non-profit organization, so this low price includes (1) international round trip air fare on Japan Airlines from Los Angeles to Denpasar, Bali, (2) accommodation* at Flower Mountain, semi-dormitory style, (3) two meals a day during the four days of orientation, as needed, and three meals a day on class days and during the World Music Weekend, July 7 and 8, (4) access to all classes and teachers, (5) the orientation program, (6) Batur temple and volcano tour, (7) use of instruments, (8) access to the library at the times that are posted, and (9) use of bedding and towels. The price for the three-weeks (or optional two-weeks) program also includes free admission to all events at the eight-day Payangan Festival.

Not included are local transport (except for organized tours), visa fee (if needed), departure taxes, optional tours, tourist performances in Ubud or elsewhere, cancellation fees, laundry charges, or other personal or medical expenses.

*Accommodation at Flower Mountain is on a first come-first served basis. Faculty is usually housed at Flower Mountain, and once the remaining rooms have been filled, latecomers will be expected to pay an additional supplement for rooms at nearby Sewu Nusa resort, or in the tourist village of Ubud, about half an hour away. (Plans for the members of the special College Music Society workshop group include accommodation off campus and daily travel to and from Flower Mountain. See CMS Box below.) Prices for off-campus housing will be available after January 1, 2004, and are expected to average $15-30 a day for comfortable, but not luxurious, housing.

Airline seats on the international flight always fill up well before departure time, so early registration is highly recommended and provides several benefits. Advance payment of $300 will ensure a seat on the group flight, and chances are better for securing housing on campus. Advance payment can be made at any time, and is fully refundable until May 1, if plans have to change. June 1 is the final deadline for registration and payment. Cancellations during the month of May will incur a fee of $200.

Java Tour - $445

The price includes round-trip airfare, Denpasar-Yogyakarta, departure tax, hotels in Java and all breakfasts, entrance fees to monuments and other sites, dinner and shadow play performance at the home of Ki Dalang Oemartopo (Flower Mountain faculty for Javanese puppetry) in the mountain town of Wonogiri, visits to a batik workshop and gamelan foundry, first-class professional guide at Borobudur, Prambanan, and other ancient temples, daily transport, performance fees for scheduled events, and a royal dinner and command performance of court gamelan and dance at the Mangkunegaran Palace in Surakarta. (This very special event has to depend on a sufficient enrollment for the Java Tour.)

Not included are lunch and dinner, except as noted, but we will guide you to clean and moderately priced restaurants. Laundry and other personal expenses are not included, or unscheduled tours to such places as the discovery site for Java Man or the Dieng Plateau. Such side tours can be arranged at nominal additional cost, time permitting.

International Air Travel

We again expect to use Japan Airlines (JAL), one of the best international carriers.

Departure is from Los Angeles (LAX), and reduced fare connecting flights can be arranged upon request from anywhere in the United States or Canada. Direct departures to Tokyo on JAL can also be arranged for a very reasonable additional fee.

The flight to Denpasar will be via either Tokyo (Narita) or Osaka. In either case, JAL provides a comfortable overnight hotel room and big buffet breakfast on the outgoing flight, and a day room on the return flight. Since we are going to the other side of the world, this thoughtful perk offers a welcome opportunity to break the long trip. One day is lost in crossing the International Dateline on the outgoing Pacific segment, and it is regained on the way back. A Monday morning departure from Los Angeles, therefore, arrives in Japan in the evening of the same day, but one calendar day later. After the overnight it arrives in Bali about 8:30 pm, so two days after departure by the calendar date However, a return flight that leaves Bali on Sunday night arrives in Los Angeles on Monday morning.

Participants are allowed two suitcases, which should be checked straight through to Denpasar, and one carryon. All participants are encouraged to travel with one suitcase, allowing us to bring special food supplies and equipment as part of the group baggage. It is easy to find attractive and inexpensive ikat bags in Bali to bring home the souvenirs that one is likely to acquire there.

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