BALAM Dance Theatre: 2012 Calendar of Activities and Performances

Sat., Jan. 28, 2-3 p.m., FREE

Dynastic Beauty-An Introduction to Balinese Dance

Three traditional Balinese dances: Pendet, Baris, Oleg Tambulilingan

This event also features an original video on Balinese daily life

created and narrated by BALAM's founding director, Islene Pinder.

Leonia Public Library, 227 Fort Lee Rd., Leonia, NJ

Sat., Feb. 11, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Johann Sebastian Bach LIVE! and Wind Power

NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street

American Classical Orchestra

Horacio Franco, guest recorder

Carlos Fittante, guest Baroque dancer

Fri. & Sat., Feb. 24-25, 7:30 p.m.

La Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers

Robin Gilbert & Carlos Fittante, Guest Baroque Dancers

Haymarket Opera Company

The Mayne Stage, 1328 W Morse Ave., Chicago, IL

Sun., March 11, 11-5 p.m.

Amantes

Oneness Blessing Deepening Workshop

TACT Studio, 900 Broadway, Suite 905, NYC

Tues., March 13, 6-7 p.m., $6

Speaking for Myself, an independent film by Pheasant Eye Productions

Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave, NYC

Thurs.-Sun., March 22-25

The Magic Flute songspiel, an abridged English adaptation presented by Apollo's Fire

Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante, guest Baroque dancers

Thurs., March 22, 7:30 p.m., Finney Chapel. Oberlin, Ohio

Fri., March 23, 8 p.m., Severance Hall. Cleveland, Ohio

Sat., March 24, 3-4 p.m., Children’s Concert, Kent State University

8 p.m., Cartwright Hall

Sun, March 25, 3-4 p.m., Children’s Concert, Cleveland Museum of Art

Mon., April 16, 12-1 p.m., $3 Donation

Dynastic Beauty-An Introduction to Balinese Dance and Culture

Temple B’Nai Torah, 2900 Jerusalem Ave.

Wantagh, NY 11793

Sun., May 6, 3:30-4:30 p.m., FREE

I Love My Life

A celebratory performance and gathering with Islene Pinder

Featuring a NYC Preview of Mythic Treasures: Old and New

DANY 305 West 38^th St., Studio 7, New York, NY

Thurs., May 10, 12:30-1:45 p.m., FREE

Mythic Treasures-Old and New

Welcome Dance with students from the Frank Sinatra HS of the Arts

Oleg solo with Nani Devi, BALAM’s Resident Balinese Guest Artist

Ramayana-Abduction of Sita (excerpt)

Biber Passacaglia for solo violin (c. 1678), Leah Gale Nelson, guest Baroque violinist

Entrée d’Apollon (1700)

Amantes

El Vito, Barbara Romero of Danzas Españolas

Wayang Blues duet 1

Sunda Upasunda (with guest belly dancer, Irina Akulenko)

The Recital Hall, Room 306, Music Building

Lehman College, The City University of New York

250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468

Fri. & Sat., April 27 & 28, FREE

Welcome Dance

Sophomore dance majors

Frank Sinatra School of the Arts

Astoria, NY

Fri., June 3, FREE

Antonchu-A new contemporary solo for Anton Zea Nadal

Masnou, Spain

Thurs., June 7, FREE

Bolero-An original solo in the Escuela Bolera style for a student dancer
Monticello High School dance program concert

Monticello, NY

Fri., June 8 (In school activity)

Setauket Elementary School (Grades K-6)

Sevillanas, La Madridleña, Fandangos de Huelva

Phyllis Rose Dance Company with guest artists from BALAM and Danzas Españolas

Setauket, NY

Thurs. & Fri., July 19 & 20 (In school activity)

Balinese Mask workshop for children

Hunter-Tannersville Elementary School

Hunter, NY

Wed., July 25, 1-3 p.m., $25

La Folia de España-An Introduction to Baroque Dance

Master class with Carlos Fittante

Marblehead School of Ballet

115 Pleasant St, 2^nd Fl.

Marblehead, MA

Fri., Aug. 4, $23, $18 seniors, $7 students

Daemons of the Baroque Ballroom-The Devil’s Fiddles

A mini opera-ballet and morality play performed with

BALAM Dance Theatre and American Virtuosi Ensemble,

Mark Huggins-Associate Violin Concertmaster, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Tamagna-counter tenor

Doctorow Center for the Arts

7971 Main Street

Hunter, NY

Sun.-Sun., Aug. 19-26 (registered students)

Nesin Cultural Arts-Summer Institute 2012

Chamber Music Institute Integrating the Arts Music, Dance, Drama and the Visual Arts

Carlos Fittante and Cheryl Lynne Lavagnino, Movement Teachers

Nesin Cultural Arts

85 Rock Ridge Drive

Monticello, NY

Fri., Sept. 21, 1:30-3:15 (Closed event)

Balinese dance masterclass and performance of the Baris

NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 111 Second Ave, NY, NY

Sat., Sept. 29, 2 p.m. FREE

Antonchu

DUMBO Dance Festival

John Ryan Theatre

25 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY

(718) 855-8822

Sat., Oct. 13, 2-3 p.m., FREE

Dancing Empire-Four Centuries of Spanish Dance

Leonia Public Library

227 Fort Lee Rd

Leonia, NJ

Sat., Oct. 20, 2-2:45 p.m., FREE

Akasha- Wings of Love

A Mixed Repertoire Program with Inma Heredia-Hostess

Morris View Nursing Home, Atrium space on the 2^nd Fl.

540 W. Hanover Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960

Sat., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m.

Cat Cantata by Georg Philipp Telemann

Inma Heredia, BALAM’s Resident Guest Actor, as “the cat that ate the canary”

Ars Antiqua

Cats-Music, Mythology & Legend, Tickets: $75-$1,000

Church of St. Mary the Virgin

191 South Greeley Avenue

Chappaqua, NY

Sat., Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. & Sun., Nov. 25 at 3 p.m.

Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi

Carlos Fittante, Baroque dancer

Boston Early Music Festival’s Chamber Opera Series

New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St.

New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

Sat.-Sun., Dec . 8 at 7 p.m., Sun. at 1:30 & 5 p.m.

$45-General Admission, $25 Students & Seniors

Carlos Fittante as Drosselmeyer

The Nutcracker NYC, Giada Ferrone

Ailey Citigroup Theatre

55^th Street at 9^th Avenue

New York, NY

Sun., Dec 9 at 7:30 p.m., $20

Amantes, Sevillanas Corraleras

Silk Road (work in progress) by Monte Luna

Stepping Out Studios

37 West 26^th Street, 9^th Floor

New York, NY

Fri.-Sun., Dec . 14-16

The Christmas Show

Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante, Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier

St George Theatre, 35 Hyatt St., Staten Island, NY

Thurs., Dec. 13 at 7 p.m., Fri., Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 15 at 3 & 7 p.m., Sun, Dec. 16 at 3 & 7 p.m.

Tickets: $10, $20, $30, $40

Fri., Dec. 21 at 7 p.m., FREE

Monticello High School Nutcracker

Dolls, Arabian and Trepak choreographed by Carlos Fittante

Monticello High School Dance Company

Monticello High School

39 Breakey Ave.

Monticello, NY

About BALAM

BALAM has performed throughout the United States and internationally at renowned venues such as: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, American Museum of Natural History, and the Bali International Arts Festival. Its work has received acclaim from audiences, critics, scholars, and dignitaries alike, including critical praise mentioned in the New York Times, Village Voice, and endorsements from the Indonesian Consulate of New York, and the Governor of Bali.

The company's long standing interest in dance research, along with its extensive collection of Balinese masks, and cutural costumes and props, make it a resource for educators, artists, and scholars.

The Deeper Meaning of the "Ramayana"

By Shelley Lynne Cummins, www.jaisriyogis.com/

Shelley Lynne Cummins is a yoga and Oneness Blessing trainer, as well as a dancer.

The first two limbs in the eight fold path of yoga are the Yamas, Awareness of the obstacles in life, and Niyamas, cultivating practices to remove the obstacles. As these limbs are activated in harmony, a balance or zero point arrives allowing causality to permeate. The classic tale of the Ramayana is a perfect depiction of this inner balance Of polarities producing unity.

As a dancer and yogini, I have had the great opportunity to study and dance the Ramayana for many years. Every time I enter into this great epic, new realizations are found. It is likened to the dance of day, going to sleep and awaking again in the morning for a new play. Amidst the routines of life subtle realizations appear as the mystery of unity Dances around in the unseen worlds.

A yogini's reflection of this great great tale.

The Ramayana is the story of the divine marriage within. It is everyone's story with all the players aspects of their self. The story begins with a happy and harmonious marriage of Sita and Rama. Sita symbolizes the balanced female and Rama the balanced male within each individual.

One day Sita is enticed by a golden deer into the cave of the evil demon, Rawana.

The capture of Sita is a metaphor of the ego consciousness trying to gain control over the potential of all. The golden deer represents the possible deception and false allure of the illusion of this physical plane.

Upon hearing the news of Sita's capture, Rama gives his golden ring to Hanuman the Monkey King. He orders Hanuman to deliver the ring to Sita so she will know help is on the way.

Here Rama embodies his higher masculine qualities of protection of the unseen and the absolute creation which lives in his word.

The ring symbolizes the circle of light around the body, known as the merkabah or golden carriage of light.

Hanuman the Monkey King represents our monkey mind constantly chattering. As our mind unites with the purpose of reinstalling causality, it becomes a servant of the heart. In service Hanuman flies across the ocean to deliver the ring to Sita. He is able to tap into the One Heart Mind And use his merkabah to transport himself where needed.

Hanuman delivers the ring to Sita and upon his return tells Rama of her whereabouts. Rama goes to fight the evil demon, Rawana, for the release of Sita.

Rama is fighting the ultimate battle of light and dark in order to regain the feminine intuitive, All knowing, nurturing life force. The light always wins as it illuminates the dark corners and shadows. Rama reunites with Sita and together they live happily ever after in the diversity and play of unity.

And to think we know the whole story, the entire ring in the circle of life.We boldly go on experiencing each section of the ring.

As Joseph Campbell says: We are each a heroine or hero on a great journey.We begin enlightened creating a life of experiences in order to realize and reunite with our all encompassing light.