Our Instructors
Ni Wayan Sukanti
Born in Batubulan on April 4, 1979. At a very young age, she danced the famous Balinese Legong dance. She has also performed outside Bali. She graduated from the Balinese art school ISI Denpasar in 2004. Sukanti continues to perform and teach regularly.
I Kadek Budi Setiawan S.Sn,
Was born on the first of January 1974, in the family of puppet masters in Sukawati. Besides being a Dalang, the Puppet Master, he is a musician, skilled dancer, and a happy clown.. He has been sent to perform abroad, such as Japan, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Hong Kong, etc. Besides all his activities as an artist, Setiawan also worked in the Balinese Cultural Department in Denpasar since 2021.
I Gusti Ngurah Tri Arya Swastana, S.Sn., M.Sn.
Born in 1997 in Gianyar, Bali. Ngurah is an academic artist who earned a Master of Arts degree from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar. He is skilled in performing arts such as Dance, Theater, and Music, and is also a Puppeteer Balinese shadow puppet master. To this day, Ngurah remains actively exploring and creating contemporary artworks.
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Per Brahe
is a Danish-trained Theatre Director specializing in Antonin Artaud and Artaud's impressions of Balinese dances during the Paris World Exhibition in 1931. That impact became an essay, “On the Balinese Theatre,” in his book “The Theatre and its Double.”
During Per's first trip to Bali in 1988, his search for Artaud's ineffable vision described in the essay began. There was little, if anything, that could match Artaud's 1931 description in 1988, but a collaboration was established during that trip between Bali's finest mask maker, Ida Bagus Anom, and Per Brahe. Together, the two artists created special masks as tools to remove the veil from the actor's most sacred creative power, which later in 2008 turned into 3 Power-Masks, that we know today as TAKSU, the Balinese word for Charisma.