TEACHER RESOURCE GUIDE SUITABLE FOR Balinese Performing Arts K-12 for Your Students FALL 2019 - SPRING 2020

With identified connections to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Hawai‘i Content & Performance Standards (HCPS III). To view connections, visit our webpage at www.cseashawaii.org/ programs/performance/wayang-listrik

Photo courtesy of Eric Chang at the East-West Center Arts Program

THIS TEACHER RESOURCE GUIDE is designed in conjunction with the Balinese Wayang Listrik show from February 7 to 16, 2020. Contact [email protected] for details on school show tickets (Feb 12 & 13). 2

Aloha TABLE OF CONTENTS educators! 2 7 - 8 11 - 12 Welcome, and About this guide Shadow puppetry Puppet templates Selamat Datang! *includes activity *includes activity

The UH Mānoa Asian 3 - 5 9 13 Theatre Program About the island of About Wayang Listrik; About the guests artists and the and performing arts as a Quick guide on Balinese and producers Center for Southeast practice performing art forms Asian Studies *includes activity are pleased to bring Balinese performing arts to the children 6 10 14 music and Suggested discussion Sponsors and supporters and youth of Hawai‘i! dance questions and dance activity *includes activity

ABOUT THIS GUIDE order to benefit from the material presented in this This educational resource guide. guide includes materials and resources to introduce you WHY BALINESE and your students to PERFORMING ARTS? traditional and contemporary Balinese performing arts. Bali is a small island in the island nation of in This resource guide is also Southeast Asia. Balinese downloadable on our music, dance, theatre, and website, along with updates shadow puppetry are rich on the production, outreach with history, culture, and events, educational behind- Image: Balinese Dance, Drama & Music, Dibia & Ballinger, 2004 storytelling in ways that the-scene videos and other naturally invoke creativity in ways to connect. Guest artist I Ketut Wirtawan when he was every child. a young boy learning the baris warrior www.cseashawaii.org/ dance from his grandfather, the famous programs/performance/ I Nyoman Kakul Most Balinese artists would wayang-listrik have begun their creative Information in this guide endeavor very early in their CONTACT US: works best with our in-school lives, making Balinese For questions on outreach activities “play-shops,” but can also be performing arts readily and the Kennedy Theatre show, used as standalone material. accessible to children and please contact Professor Kirstin It is not necessary to have youth of prime learning age. Pauka, director of the Asian Theatre seen the Kennedy Theatre We are excited for you and Program, at (808) 956-2587 and Spring 2020 production of your students to discover all [email protected]. Balinese Wayang Listrik in that our program has to offer! *** INCLUDES ACTIVITY *** 3

Image from Wikimedia Commons by Uwe Dedering (labels added)

Hawaiian Islands

PHILIPPINES MICRONESIA

Pacific Ocean

SOUTHEAST ASIA Image from Wikimedia Commons by Nick Roux POLYNESIA (slightly edited) INDONESIA PAPUA NEW GUINEA

MELANESIA

Bali

AUSTRALIA

Bali map image from Wikimedia Commons by Peter Fitzgerald

ABOUT BALI (and connections to Hawai’i!)

•Bali is a small island in the eastern part of Indonesia, a country in Southeast Asia. BALINESE (B) / ENGLISH HAWAIIAN INDONESIAN (I) •Indonesia is a huge country with about 17,000 islands, 6,000 of which are inhabited, with different ethnic groups and Fish I‘a Ikan (I) languages. •Bali is one of the smaller islands, just east of Eye Maka Mata (B/I) Java, and has about 4.2 million people. Rooster/Bird Manu Manuk (B) •About eighty-four percent of the people in Bali are Balinese Hindu (though it’s quite different from Hinduism in India). Coconut Niu Nyuh (B)

•Most Balinese are bilingual, sp