Click for updates & pictures from Bapak Waleed & the ISFA's summer tour to Indonesia, including Padang, Bukittinggi, and other locales,
ISFA@Yale is a student group dedicated to sharing the arts, cultures, natural healing methods, and traditional dances of Indonesia and Southeast Asia
with the Yale University and New Haven community. CLICK for more information
on Indonesia's History & Culture
We hold ongoing sessions on campus and special events throughout the
year. For more information, to subscribe to our email list, or if you have questions or comments, please
contact us.
ISFA@Yale holds practice sessions, performances, and workshops in the Traditional Dances of the Minangkabau Culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia. In West, Sumatra, the traditions and culture of the people, including their theater, dance, and music, play a vital role in bringing the community together. Children learn traditional dance from a young age, and the Minang people have preserved adab and adat within the traditional arts for centuries.
Click to visit the website of Syofyani's Traditional West Sumatra Music & Dance Ensemble, a group which travels worldwide performing "The Legendary Arts of Minangkabau Traditional Dances from the Land of Matrilineal Society"
Click to learn more about the Minangkabau culture...
Bapak Waleed world-renowned educator, artist, and choreographer Leonardo J. Stoute, Bapak Waleed has spent the last three decades traveling and ...
Click to see Bapak's Bio & Instructor Profile
Bapak Waleed was invited up onto the main stage, with other dignitaries and officials, for the opening ceremonies of 'Pekan Budaya Sumatera Barat 2008,' the week-long Cultural Festival in Padang in July, 2008.
Bapak Waleed also met with the Mayor of Padang, Walikota Fauzi Bahar, as well as professors, researchers, and officials at Andalas University and other top schools throughout West Sumatra.
International Silat Federation of America
Meditations in Motion 
Spiritual Dance
Silat Training
ISFA@Yale is committed to Community Service and Community Outreach in their many forms. Click for more.
Volunteer opportunities abound in New Haven, with organizations including:
...and many more. For additional information, click here
