SEA Arts is currently establishing itself as a leading organization in promoting South East Asian performing arts in the UK.

The Director of SEA Arts, Ni Madé Pujawati, was trained at the Institute of Arts in Indonesia as a classical Balinese and Javanese dancer. She is now based in London and is working on performances involving cross-Asian collaboration. These include many productions with FIPA combining Indian and Indonesian dance (e.g. Bidrohi, Shapmochan, Tasher Desh, Dance of the Cobra, Kal Mrigaya, Panji).

Over the past four years it has been working with the AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance at SOAS on Interpreting And (Re)Constructing Dance And Music Heritage in Indonesia (for details click here).

SEA Arts has brought over to London a beautiful seven tone Balinese Gamelan Semar Pagulingan and the Indonesian composer I Nengah Susila to work on a series of new compositions, which have included collaborations with players from the LSO Symphony Orchestra.

SEA Arts has organized tours of Balinese classical dance and drama in the USA and, through the Director, Ni Madé Pujawati, has been involved in performances of traditional Javanese dance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank London.

Currently SEA Arts is involved in a series of new collaborations with FIPA and River Cultures - see Forthcoming Performances. SEA Arts is also creating a new choreography, A Cruel Mad Perfect Paradise, exploring how Western intellectuals - notably Artonin Artaud, Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead - imagined Bali using masked dance.