It is with great joy and anticipation that we welcome, International Body Music Festival creator, beloved mentor, collaborator and friend, Keith Terry!
During his visit he will lead Body Tjak seminars [beginners and advanced] and Body Tjak Community Event.
ABOUT BODY TJAK PROJECT
The Body Tjak Project is an on-going, long-term US/Indonesian collaboration produced by Crosspulse. The Body Tjak (pronounced “chock”) Projects are dynamic, multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural performances conceived and created by American percussionist/rhythm dancer and body musician Keith Terry, and Indonesian dancer/choreographer and kecak (“keh-chock”) expert I Wayan Dibia. In 1980 Keith Terry and I Wayan Dibia began developing this contemporary hybrid form that integrates body music and kecak and employs a total use of the artistic body through movement, dance, rhythm, sound and voice.
Kecak (sometimes called Monkey Chant in the west) was originally a part of Bali’s “sanghyang” trance dance, and is commonly used to depict the story of the monkey army in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Its high-energy, interlocking vocal patterns, ranging from primordial animal gutturals to ethereal melodies of exquisite beauty and sophistication, have inspired some of Bali’s most innovative contemporary choreography. Terry and Dibia weave body music and kecak through their imaginations, combining and extending these contemporary and traditional forms into a new artistic expression that blends, bends and stretches aesthetic sensibilities. It is also worth noting that in Bali, Body Tjak has become a new genre that also other artists are exploring.
"In its wonderfully unique yet universal mingling of East and West, and without thorny ideological ramifications, BODY TJAK is a refreshing and almost flawlessly executed work of art. It is gentle but not slack, charming but not cute, and both inspirational and thoroughly entertaining."
— GUARDIAN
ABOUT KEITH TERRY
Keith Terry is an internationally acclaimed percussionist/rhythm-dancer/educator whose artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. From 1998 to 2005 Keith was on the faculty at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designed and taught a dozen courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time, and timing; and intercultural communication in the arts. In 2006 he conceived and directed the first International Body Music Performance Project for the Orff Institute in Salzburg. Keith tours extensively in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, where his Body Music performances, workshops, residencies and choreographic commissions are popular among professional performers and educators. Keith Terry is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and the Founding Director of Crosspulse, a 32-year old Oakland, California-based arts organization dedicated to rhythm-based intercultural music and dance. Keith is also the Founding/Artistic Director of the Crosspulse project, the International Body Music Festival (IBMF), an annual 6-day Festival which explores the language of body music from culture to culture.
“A virtuoso invertebrate, bending, bouncing, flopping and popping (literally) in our midst but rarely seeming to come down to earth.”
— Dance Magazine
SCHEDULE
Saturday 22 October \ 16.30-19.30 \ beginners class
Sunday 23 October \ 11.30-14.30 \ advanced class
20.00-21.30 \ Body Tjak Community Event
On Sunday night we will all play together, under the guidance of Keith.
No previous experience required.
COST
1 class + Community Event : 50€
2 classes + Community Event : 85€
Body Tjak Community Event participation : 5€
REGISTRATIONS
via google form: https://forms.gle/hbVij2dUoAnFMbGd8
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