Currently the Director of Cultural Institution and Human Resources Development in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Indonesia. He obtained his bachelor's degree in history from Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta (UNS), and continued his masters and doctoral studies in History at the University of Indonesia.
Her career in dance industry began as a choreographer, then grew into that of an educator and manager of the creative platform she initiated: Loka Art in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta. She also has a 10-year experience as a performing arts producer.
Together with Isa Köhler, Katharina Kucher took over as the co-director of Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in 2021. Until then she acted as head of project and contract management at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin. Before that, she worked as a freelance researcher for the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e. V. and wrote several studies on cultural development and cultural funding.
Arsita Iswardhani is an actor, performance-maker, dramaturg, and a collective member of Teater Garasi / Garasi Performance Institute, based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She explores methods of performance-making through various intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches, studying martial arts, Javanese dance, the Suzuki Method, and corporeal ethnography as a means of performance.
Originally from California, Jeannie moved to Yogyakarta in 1996. She is a Javanese dance practitioner and was the first non-Javanese to be accepted at Yogyakarta’s Royal Court as a dancer. Currently she served as the executive director of the non-profit organization and cultural landmark Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja (PSBK) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Yudi is known as an experimental director who pushes Indonesia’s theater aesthetics to the next level, and has presented his works in international forums across Asia, Europe, America, and Australia. He is also one of the founders of Teater Garasi - an interdisciplinary artist collective in Yogyakarta.
Sari entered the world of drama at a very young age and was actively participating in Kak Yana's drama group. Since 1978 until now, she has been involved in the Teater Koma group as an actress, stage manager, production manager, and director.
Farah Wardani is an art historian and curator who currently serves as the Director of Jakarta Biennale 2021, and Visual Arts Committee member of the Jakarta Arts Council. Previously, Farah served as the executive director of Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with works including the IVAA Digital Archive, the first digital archive of contemporary art in the country.
Ayu Utami is an award-winning Indonesian writer who was the 2000 Prince Claus Award Laureate. During Indonesia's military regime, Ayu was a journalist and press freedom activist. She was one of the founders of The Alliance of Independent Journalists which was later banned by the military regime. Her first novel Saman (1998), published just a few days before Soeharto stepped down, was highly acclaimed by literary critics and became a bestseller as well as an icon of the spirit of freedom during the political change (Reformasi) in Indonesia.
Kennya Rinonce is a storyteller who uses theater, dance, and live-events as her creative medium (Drupadi ID—2018). She has been involved with the Ministry of Education and Culture through an art residency in New Zealand (Cultural Activist) along with the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency by helping develop a dance community program in Wakatobi, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Yacobus Ari R (l. 1991, tinggal dan bekerja di Bandung) adalah pengajar seni dan kurator. Ia tergabung dalam staf ajar Integrated Arts - Fakultas Filsafat Universitas Parahyangan, dengan sejak sebelumnya telah menguratori, menulis, dan meneliti untuk berbagai presentasi pameran dan proyek seni.
Born in Payakumbuh, West Sumatra on October 13, 1990, Heru Joni Putra studied and graduated in English Literature FIB Andalas University and Cultural Studies FIB Universitas Indonesia. His first book entitled "Badrul Mustafa" (2017) was awarded the Best Poetry Book version of TEMPO Magazine 2018 and the 2019 Wisran Hadi Award.
Sankar Venkateswaran is a theater director who studied directing at School of Drama and Fine Arts, University of Calicut, after which he trained at Theater Training and Research Programme, Singapore. In 2007, he founded Theater Roots & Wings. In 2013 he received the Ibsen Scholarship from Teater Ibsen, Norway, for “Tribal Ibsen Project” which furthered his work with the indigenous people in the mountain valley of Attapadi, Kerala.
Mandeep Raikhy is a dance practitioner based in New Delhi. He trained at Trinity Laban and worked with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, London, for several years. Mandeep has created and toured extensively for many of his dance works, notably “Inhabited Geometry” (2010), “a male ant has straight antennae” (2013) and “Queen Size” (2016).
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