Community Arts
Community Arts
Performance and Workshops with Wisnu Aji Setyo Wicaksono and Cakil Squad Funding for Sumunar to bring choreographer and dancer Wisnu Aji Setyo Wicaksono and four dancers of his company ?Cakil Squad? from Indonesia to Minnesota for one week in April or early May 2017. The visiting artists will perform in a concert with the Sumunar dance and gamelan ensembles and offer at least two workshop/performances to students from area arts schools and colleges.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Robert Cuerden: Audience development, marketing, fundraising, organizational, development, planning; Janet Fried: Artistic, education; Laura Krider: General management, administration, artistic; Vong Lee: Artistic, youth programming, community service, development; Anna Min: Audience development, marketing, organizational development; Noel Nix: Community service, development, general administration, organizational development; Nasibu Sareva: General administration, fundraising, community service, development; Joyce Strand: Youth programming; Joko Sutrisno: Artistic, education, audience development, marketing, general administration.
ACHF Arts Access
Workshop participants will learn a new movement skills. We expect about 30 workshop participants. Sumunar Dance Ensemble will learn a new dance which will stay in the repertoire for the next several years. At least 60% of the audience members at the performance will experience Javanese music and dance for the first time. Workshop: post-workshop discussion with core organizing group at Linwood Monroe Arts to get feedback and review the project in terms of whether we met participation goals, the workshop was complete, and what worked well and what can be improved, and to assess the artistic outcome. Work with Sumunar Dance Ensemble: Post-performance discussion with ensemble members about the process and the artistic work performed. Performance: audience survey included in program that will track number of people seeing and hearing Javanese music and dance for the first time, and asking for their impressions.
65 workshop participants got a novel perspective on world dance and learned new ways of moving, particularly those associated with male dancers. We reached more than twice as many students as proposed. Our concert audience was larger than expected (>200). 41 surveys were completed. 20% heard gamelan and 34% saw Indonesian dance for the first time. 100% praised the aesthetic value of the work.
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