Dancers:

Ni Madé Pujawati is Artistic director of Lila Bhawa Indonesian Dance Company. She started dancing in her village of Tegallalang in Bali when she was 6 and has been dancing ever since. A graduate of the Institute of Arts in Bali, as well as performing Balinese and Javanese virtuoso dance, she is also a renowned performer of the Balinese dance-opera, Arja.  She has performed widely in Europe and the USA.

Dewi Ariati is originally from Blitar in East Java and has been performing Balinese and Javanese dance  with Lila Bhawa since 2013 at LSO St. Luke’s, the Southbank Centre, Festival Asia and Discover Indonesia.

Saryani Asmayawati  was born in West Java and began learning and performing Balinese dance at Sanggar Tari Gita Saraswati in Bandung at the age of ten. She also learned Sundanese dance and was a member of Lingkung Seni Sunda at Institut Teknologi, Bandung. Since coming to the UK she has danced with Lila Bhawa at events in London and around the UK.

Margaret Coldiron trained as an actress at the Drama Centre, London, and toured the US playing leads with the National Shakespeare Company but became entranced with Balinese masks and studied Topeng in Bali with Ida Bagus Alit. She has been dancing with Lila Bhawa since 2001 and gives workshops and performances in the UK, Europe and the US.   She is associate director of Thiasos (a theatre company specialising in intercultural performances of Greek classics) and plays with Lila Cita gamelan. She is the author of Trance and Transformation of the Masked Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Dance Drama (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004).