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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Kadek Dewi Aryani - About Dewi

"I am a dancer now... passionately performing traditional and contemporary Balinese dance, and offering my knowledge of this craft and its cultural and spiritual significance to a new generation of dancers."

Kadek Dewi Aryani, born 1977 in Karangasem, the ancient and very traditional eastern area of Bali, is one of the most promising talents of a new generation of Balinese performers, combining the strong roots of Balinese tradition with new contemporary approaches in her creative performance.

She now resides in Junjungan - Ubud, where she opened her own studio to teach traditional and contemporary Balinese dance to local children, interested adults, and even visiting dance enthusiasts from Japan, and other countries.


Trained in traditional Balinese dance, music and vocal artistry in Peliatan, Ubud, Singapadu, and at the STSI (Indonesian Academy of the Arts) in Denpasar, she has participated in numerous festivals and cultural exhibitions in Bali, Indonesia, and around the world. (Notably: Japan, India, Korea, England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and USA)

In the late 1990's, she has distinguished herself with stunning collaborations and performances in the contemporary performing arts field.



Composers such as Aryawan (Bali), Dewa Bujana (Indonesia) or Kevin Bird (Hawaii) have been inspired by Dewi to compose music scores for her dance, or have utilized her dance and vocal talents to enhance their own artistic endeavors.

She also worked with Indonesian visual artist Erewan on elaborate performances, uniquely blending the worlds of the performing arts with the visual arts.


Furthermore - over the course of the last two short years - she joined the multi-national cast of Kobalt Works, a European dance troupe as one of the principal dancers and solo vocalists to perform in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France.

She participated in workshops for the epic performance "La Galigo". directed by Robert Wilson and composed by Rahayu Supanggah, and was invited to dance with Cudamani at the World Festival Of Sacred Music in Los Angeles, an important cultural event sponsored by UCLA.

As a frequently invited guest of Balinese television stations, she interprets traditional dances with her own choreography, and also showcases new contemporary music and dance compositions.


Monday, December 17, 2007

The Anthurium Money Tree

The name of the flower anthurium currently was on the rise. This tree was often pursued by the person because his price was expensive. Anthurium like the money tree for his owner. This decorative plants seed could dilego costing Rp 300 thousand. Whereas one anthurium big his price could reach hundreds of millions rupiah. Because of that not surprised, one green house deliberate put on alarm to protect anthurium. The owners anthurium deliberate protected his wealth leaves in a heterogenous manner the method. If alarm was felt did not suffice, the owner of the crop house was not shy to enclose the guard's dog to guard the crop anthurium. But, there were also those who carried out the security with manpower.

This was done by the reason for the brightness of the case of the theft of the tree anthurium. That just recently seven men of the member of the thief's group anthurium was arrested by the personnel Sector Police Ngargoyoso, Kabupaten Karanganyar, Central Java.
Two thieves were forced to be shot by police when making an effort to escape. Indeed in several last months the case of the theft anthurium in the regency that became centres anthurium this at least every time two days happened very much the theft.

appropriate, good his kind, the quality and of course his price.
The business anthurium indeed was rolling.
There is none that knew must be how big the volume of the trade and proceeding money each day. Saw still the height of the request, was predicted by the value of the transaction anthurium this in the range of five as far as eight billion each month. This was not surprised because for one nursery just big his transaction could reach Rp 600 million as far as Rp 800 million per the month.

The fever anthurium evidently cleared as far as the corner territory.
Simple greenhouses could be almost encountered in the Balong Jenawi Village, Karanganyar.
Regent Karanganyar Rina Iriani Sri Ratnaningsih afterwards proclaimed and promoted anthurium Karanganyar to the corner of the world. In fact, the original crop the Amazon edge in South America this since long ago did not have the historic association with Karanganyar.
How could this business of the tail flower jack up and roll the wheel of the economy as well as created the field of the work, joined his investigation in the recorder of the Torch video 30 Ahad edition minutes, on December 16 2007. (BGP)