The mission of the Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota (IPAAM) is to promote an understanding of and appreciation for Indonesian music, dance and culture. IPAAM was founded in 2002 as a non-profit organization.
Download copies of IPAAM's Annual Reports: 2005 or 2004.
For more information: Mary Shamrock,
IPAAM Executive Director, 612-729-6737
IPAAM continues
the highly successful gamelan program initiated by
The Schubert Club.
The name SUMUNAR was adopted in Spring 2007 to identify all of the IPAAM performing ensembles. Sumunar is an Indonesian word, meaning "glowing, brilliant light," one that illumniates and warms the soul.
The Schubert Club commissioned a complete slendro-pelog bronze gamelan (Minnesota's first) which arrived in 1995 from Java. This mostly percussion orchestra consists of about fifty instruments constructed and tuned as one unit -- hanging gongs, metallophones, pot gongs in ornately carved racks, xylophones, flutes and a few stringed instruments.
After almost six years of being hosted by The College of St. Catherine, the instruments are now housed at the University Technology Center in the former Marshall University High School in Dinkytown, near the University of Minnesota East Bank campus in Minneapolis, MN.
IPAAM offers community classes for both children and adults in gamelan music and Indonesian dance. The organization also provides periodic introductory workshops for adults or for families. Programs for schools include residencies, assembly programs, and workshops in gamelan music and Indonesian dance.
IPAAM supports several gamelan and dance performing ensembles. The Sumunar Dance Ensemble performs traditional and contemporary Indonesian dance, often collaborating with the Sumunar Gamelan Ensemble. The gamelan ensemble presents one or two major performances
annually, some of which are performed on
The Schubert Club's gamelan, Kyai Medharing Madu.
Smaller gamelan and dance are also available for educational performances, gamelan
demonstrations, and playing for social functions.
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