During each Indonesian Dance Festival, the curatorial team selects a number of works from choreographers or dance groups from both local and international, with strict considerations: whether it’s based on the innovation of the genre, thematic development, the conveyance of issues and discourse, or other factors such as equality of the geographical, age, gender, and social class of the creators. Over the years of the Indonesian Dance Festival, the works featured in this program have become a starting point for observing the development of contemporary dance in Indonesia and internationally.
Kampana
Kampana, originally from Sanskrit “that which has vibrations” is the IDF’s laboratorium (wadah) which offers artists quality time and space to develop their artistic research. The participating artists are chosen to undergo a creative process and span out to diverse choreographic practices, ideas and sociocultural contexts.
Kampana culminates in either a work in progress presentation or a performance within the framework of IDF. In an intimate setting, Kampana supports the artists in developing ideas and creation processes based on research, dialogue, discourses, experimentation and knowledge being shared between peers in the collective process guided by curators and mentors.
Kampana participants are in the early stage of their practice in contemporary dance. Participants may come from various artistic backgrounds, and there are no age limitations.
Workshops & Masterclasses
IDF regularly invites dance practitioners to lead trainings that are relevant to dance enthusiasts and practitioners. The program is designed as a platform of exchange, as well as artistic practice and knowledge related to contemporary dance. Workshops are open to both dance enthusiasts and practitioners, while Masterclass is best suited for participants with experience in choreography or body exploration.
This workshop is a brief provocation from Fitri Setyaningsih through simple themes, presenting or bringing to life components according to their nature at the moment or when they occur. Fitri invites participants to converse their anxieties on an unlimited focus of the body, then spark a creational approach across media or disciplines.
Created by Arco Renz, Spiral Gong is a movement practice that energizes and connects mind and body, allowing them to resonate and to move as one.
In this class, Olé will share his techniques, vocabulary, working methods and creative process to explore participants’ own artistic research. Olé will then transmit techniques and movements of the different techniques that forge his dance and on their marriage which singles out his vocabulary.
This workshop invites participants to learn a core principle of being a dancer: knowing your own body. Mastery of the body will make the anatomy of choreography more mature and ensure the body's readiness to receive various ideas, data, and intentions in the next stage of creating any work.
In this masterclass, choreographer and dancer Leu Wijee, will share his newest discovery/movement research that he calls Powerstation/Arus. Participants are invited to understand how Leu Wijee organizes continuous movement-word-energy, work with scores, and the time-space continuum in the mind-body.
The workshop will introduce Marrugeku’s improvisational approaches to embodying social, cultural, personal and interspecies expression to develop new gestural dance and theatre.
Dance maestro Didik Nini Thowok will share the basic body movements of Tari truno (Truno Dance), a folk tayub dance from Central Java created in 1983. The choreography of Tari Truno was created by Didik Nini Thowok for a film titled “Banteng Mataram: Ki Ageng Mangir” (1983)
In this workshop, we will use the style of Argentine tango as the main focus for exchange. In the dance style of Argentine tango, female dancers must center their weight on their male partners, who lead the spatial direction.
In this workshop, Eyi Lesar will invite participants to play games such as the traditional childhood game, Gobak Sodor. Participants will explore integrating choreography, games and sports, while considering intentions and the impact on one's body's motor response within a space.
Body exploration is highly important, acting as the basics of cultivating potential in the body, as a pre-dance class. This practice is synergized with movement exploration, to produce the ability to synchronise imagination and body capacity to illustrate ideas, may it be one or many.
“No. 60” is not a choreographic pose or movement but it is a “principle of the dance practice” that consists of the combination of six elements. Participants will learn about the six elements and how to adapt them in order to find their own dance identities.
In the body, muscles are the main connective tissue that regulates all our activities. In this class, participants are invited to increase muscle awareness which is crucial in carrying out the multiple functions of the body.
This Masterclass introduces the core principles of Taiji Quan and their creative application in the performing arts. We will practice a set of physical principles relating to breathing patterns and the merging of opposing poles such as in-out, open-close, gather-disperse.
Working with the body and voice, Angela Goh invites participants to explore the mechanisms of choreographic construction.
Imagination enables humans to create or transform something ordinary into the extraordinary, even when its form is still a fleeting thought in mind. This workshop hopes to be a space to spark participants’ creativity in using the body, things, and spaces around them.
Instead of considering limitations as a constraint, it can actually be seen as guidelines for achieving freedom. This method of limitation is a space for body construction that Hari Ghurur works on to explore new possibilities of repetitive motion, so that organic and expressive motion emerges.
Matatari
Involving choreographic participants and dancers across backgrounds, this program is intended to foster dialogue and exchange through observing the entire festival program, including performances, workshops and discussions. This program aims to be a bridge connecting the exchange of dance practice knowledge and cultural experiences, so we can gaze clearer and learn from the diversity of Indonesia. Through Matatari, participants from various regions are able to map, create dialogue, and network together to fertilize the Indonesian dance ecosystem to be healthy, contextual, inclusive, progressive, and gender equitable.