{"id":5624,"date":"2013-09-04T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:37:20","slug":"gamelan-semara-santi-is-looking-for-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/2013\/09\/04\/gamelan-semara-santi-is-looking-for-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamelan Semara Santi is looking for dancers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swarthmore&#8217;s classical Indonesian percussion orchestra (Gamelan Semara Santi) is looking for new student dancers this year!\u00a0\u00a0 No prior experience with Balinese dance is assumed, but students should have some prior dance training.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got some unusual stuff in the works!\u00a0 We will be performing <em>Kecak &#8211;<\/em> the so-called Balinese &#8216;Monkey Chant&#8217;.\u00a0 This is a performance genre in which musicians accompany the dancers by chanting interlocking rhythms.\u00a0 We will also perform a traditional Balinese greeting dance and the dancers will be accompanied by the usual orchestral percussion.<\/p>\n<p>Balinese dance is taught by Latifah lsegaf and I Nyoman Suadin.<\/p>\n<p>The commitment is:<br \/>\nSunday October 27th, 2-5 PM, Boyer Studio<br \/>\nSunday November 10th, 2-5 PM, Boyer Studio<br \/>\nSunday November 24th, 2-5 PM, Boyer Studio<br \/>\nwith a final Fall Concert: Sunday December 8th: 10 AM rehearsal; concert at 3 PM<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in participating please email Tom Whitman in the Music and Dance Department at twhitma1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarthmore&#8217;s classical Indonesian percussion orchestra (Gamelan Semara Santi) is looking for new student dancers this year!\u00a0\u00a0 No prior experience with Balinese dance is assumed, but students should have some prior dance training.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got some unusual stuff in the works!\u00a0 We will be performing Kecak &#8211; the so-called Balinese &#8216;Monkey Chant&#8217;.\u00a0 This is a performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}