Topeng Pajegan

The San Francisco Foundation Choreography commission is being presented to Sekar Jaya’s Director, Wayne Vitale, a composer, performer, and scholar who has led the group for more than twenty years; and to I Made Moja, a senior company dancer who will choreograph the new work to the accompaniment of music for gamelan jegog — an orchestra of giant bamboo marimbas. Moja is a painter, dancer, set designer, and puppet maker from Batuan, a traditional arts village in Bali known for its performing arts, woodcarving and unique painting style.