Migrating Shadows is a multimedia production combining elements from Indonesian traditions of gamelan music, dance, and shadow puppetry with computer graphics, sound-oriented free-improvisation, and contemporary performance aesthetics. The performers will literally migrate between different spaces in Cornell's Johnson Museum of Art, leading the audience on a journey through public spaces to virtual worlds. Thematically, the production draws upon the 14th century Javanese story of Sutasoma, a reincarnation of the Buddha-to-be, and
his encounters with the human-eating King Kalmasapada.
The production features two guest artists, I Gusti Putu Sudarta (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar) and Darsono Hadiraharjo (SEAP Visiting Critic), joined by Christopher J. Miller, Kevin Ernste, and graduate student composers Sergio Cote Barco, Miles Jefferson Friday, and Piyawat Louilarpprasert, from Cornell's Department of Music.
