This first issue of Ecumenica’s fifteenth volume pays respect to I Nyoman Cerita. His essay on calonarang performance in Bali was under review, here, when he passed away in late 2021. A respected artist and scholar, Cerita taught at the Institut Seni Indonesia and choreographed performances of many sorts around the world. Cerita has written about the ritual practice of performers in calonarang and encourages us to regard that practice as fundamental to calonarang performers’ art. In this issue we offer his essay, which was co-authored by his friend Kathy Foley, Distinguished Professor Emerita at UC-Santa Cruz and a past editor of Asian Theatre Journal. Foley and I Nyoman Sedana provide a preface to this essay, in memory of I Nyoman Cerita and as an introduction to the art in which he was a true expert.
This issue also offers the first of two parts of Kristen Rudisill’s...
