Bali's dancing principal inspires

Lionel Cranenburgh

By Lionel Cranenburgh
Community contribution / March 13, 2015

I visited Bali from Perth to discover how one of Indonesia’s oldest principals uses his timeless gifts as a dancer-musician to inspire a community in music and dancing. This is a story of an inspirational leader who combines his duties as a school principal with the arts.

Perched high in the evergreen hills of Petang is where Bali’s oldest serving dancer-musician principal transforms his community through dance ...

This story appeared in the March 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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