I Made Bandem

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I Made Bandem is a Balinese dancer, artist, author, and educator.

Bandem studied Balinese Dance from a very early age, and was performing Baris and other dances by the age of ten. One of the first Balinese dancers to study in the United States, Bandem earned his masters' degree in dance from UCLA, and his PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. Bandem's academic career includes sixteen years as the director of the Indonesian College of the Arts in Denpasar, and he is currently the director of Indonesia's oldest cultural institution, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts - Yogyakarta.

As an artist and as a visiting scholar, Bandem has taught and performed Balinese dance throughout the world.

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