Ela Mutiara

Choreographer and dancer born in Sukabumi, West Java. She finished her Masters in Artistic Creation in Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. Since 2016, her practice digs into historical events, tradition, lifestyle, and women in the Sundanese socio-cultural perspective. Auto-ethnography became the working method developed in her creative research and process, placing the body as the main medium expressed through dance works, videos, performances, and exhibitions. In 2020, she began to question how hip movements emerged in Sundanese folk dancing, triggering a long trace through the history, context, meaning and existence of the hips in Bajidoran arts today and becoming the artistic field she continuously developed, leading to the creation of a few works and collaborations.