I Gusti Ngurah Kertayuda is one of Bali's most respected master dancers and the director of Indonesian Dance of Illinois. His charismatic performances have been well received throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. A graduate of the National Performing Arts Institute (KOKAR) in Denpasar, Indonesia, he is well versed in the many forms of traditional dance and music from Indonesia.  

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Mr. Kertayuda is also Balinese Wayang Kulit Dalang - a master of Balinese shadow puppetry. He performs wayang kulit spoken and sung in Sanskrit from the epic poetry of The Mahabharata and The Ramayana. In 2020 and 2021, Mr. Kertayuda recorded the instrumental and vocal parts for a single wayang kulit episode with recording engineer, Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio, Those recordings, along with field recordings for ambience and dramatic events were arranged and spatialized by Bill Parod in the piece Yudha Hati, and presented at the 30-channel SONIC PAVILION FESTIVAL 2021 in The Jay Pritzker Pavilion of Millennium Park, Chicago.