MODERN PERFORMING ARTS AS A REFLECTION OF CHANGING BALINESE IDENTITYFootnote∗

∗ This paper was presented at the Indonesian Council Open Conference (ICOC), Monash University, Melbourne, 24–25 September 2007. I thank Keith Foulcher, Barbara Hatley, and Joost Cotè for their encouraging comments during the seminar, and Adrian Vickers and Laura Noszlopy for their suggestions regarding the earlier draft of the paper. I am grateful to Matthew Isaac Cohen and Michel Picard for sharing their research notes with me. I would also like to thank IMW's two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions as well as Helen Creese for invaluable input and insight, and Christopher Dames for editing my English. I take responsibility for any shortcomings.

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