GAMELAN SEKAR JAYA is recognized as the premier Balinese gamelan outside of Indonesia. Founded in 1979, the fifty-member ensemble of musicians and dancers has presented hundreds of concerts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bali -- in venues ranging from the Art Center in Denpasar to remote village squares. Sekar Jaya has sponsored the creation of more than sixty major new works for gamelan and dance, including unique collaborative projects that have brought the group together with composers, theater artists, puppeteers, Indian dancers, and symphony orchestras. In 2000 they received a Dharma Kusuma -- Bali's highest award for artistic achievement, never before given to foreign performers. GSJ will be performing music for gamelan jegog -- the giant bamboo marimbas of West Bali, seldom heard outside of Bali. The jegog enemble will be under the direction of special guest artist, master musician I Made Terip.

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KOICHI & HIROKO TAMANO are the directors of Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Former students of Tatsumi Hijikata, one of the original founders of Butoh, the Tamanos devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque. Japan's famed author, Yukio Mishima, considered Koichi to have the most perfect body of all the dancers in Hijikata's studio. Harupin-Ha's captivating performances have been lauded by audiences worldwide.

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PAMELA WUNDERLICH is a performance artist and stilt-dancer who composes complex portraits of unusual female characters in dance, film, and costume. She has been a featured performer at the Other Minds New Music Festival and has performed at the Los Angeles Zoo and the Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle. She will be performing at this year’s Other Minds Festival with classical accordionist Stefan Hussong.

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MELISSA WOLFMANN is a soprano known for her rich, flexible, and dramatic vocal style. She has performed at the San Francisco NOW Music Festival in an original work about the life of Sacagewa, Utah Festival Opera, Fresno Grand Opera, Fresno Philharmonic, California Opera, and the Tulare County Symphony. Internationally, she has sung with Operafestival di Roma and with the Sofia Grand Opera in Bulgaria.

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