LONTAR Balinese Palm Leaf book.

The material has survived for more than 2000 years as a “narrative technique” and is still used today in the best plays and films. The material is relatively unknown but deserves to be more widely used by Musicians, Playwrights, Stage and film Directors, Actors, and Set designers.

Since it has been used by numerous authors with roots in Asian culture and influence, this program. The material consists of 18 exercises that give the body and the imagination an enrichment.

Since it is a physical material and not the intellect, it is important to notice that it is the body's incorporation of the ancient material that has its highest priority to begin with. It will quickly open up for Inspiration and Creativity.

The exercises are easily accessible and contain a fair amount of playfulness.

The structure for incorporating the material remains abstract and wordless until we reach the "King's Exercise" which brings it all together into a beginning creative process where everyone in the Ensemble, which is established at the beginning and which constitutes an essential foundation for the entire development work, begins to play scenes, texts, improvisations and create images while the imagination develops and gives us the music and songs.

Through the work, you explore how human and democratic it is for you and your audience. Next, you will explore the artistic creativity that is generated from the structure.

At the beginning of the work, we focus on and connect the will force to the imagination because we know that those two archetypal resources need each other. The third and the last archetypical quality: The EMOTIONS, which we put on hold from the very beginning, for the reason that emotions can interrupt the connection between WILL force and THE INSPIRATION, will now be activated.

And we will reach back to the literature from the ancient Mahabharata, the Greek Drama, Shakespeare, Moliere, and further up to our days via Leonardo da Vinci, modern stories, and plays of today to briefly study their creative processes. Film examples: Theo Angelopoulos, The Traveling Players ( Greek), and  Andrei Tarkovskij, The Mirror (Russian), as well as the movie Crash. (US)

But most important is what you create yourself and enjoy the creative growth, when your material gets on the floor.

You will create and express yourself via text, music, dance, and much more, and to support your development, you will receive constant support from our outstanding Balinese faculty members.

The Balinese language and its inherent creative power will occasionally " Inspire the way you hear your text in a new, exceptional and unfamiliar way to reveal its possibilities to produce a physical impact; to divide and distribute it actively in space".

In fact, you are playing with the 4 basic performance voices by using masks. But a teacher using that 4 mask in his performances will be with you during the process.

 It can be taught individually for 7 days with one day off.

Larger ensembles require more time. But again, our flexibility means that we can adapt to your visiting time.

Or it can, depending on the agreement, be expanded so that it becomes a directed stage study that more closely meets the requirements of the visiting artist’s material and visions.

 If there is a need for continuity, the inspired playwright can continue using the JOGLO's creative energy and spiritual power to write plays, poems, stories, and much more. We do not set any limits to creativity, but we help to magnify it. Balinese Culture is a Yes, Yes, culture that expands the framework and gives wide powers and creativity to the individual visiting artist.

To open up to the archaic material, we use the 18 simple exercises. But we also have one of the world’s greatest and most functional mask materials created over the years since 1988. They work for the thinking, feeling, and will, the character, and the archetypes. Special masks for the emotions, special masks for the text as is, and masks for deconstructed text, we end with the “focusing” masks and the icon masks right before the Soul mask. Spiritual healing mask, Charisma masks, and “above words” 11 masks created from 11 selected text/music of Johan Sebastian Bach from his Matthew Passion. Written with the help of the Archaic model.

Contact Bali Theatre Centre, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia via email and set up a Zoom meeting for more details. Email: Pertopeng@gmail.com