This work began with memories of Ela’s childhood experiences as a spectator of Bajidoran art. This Sundanese folk performance becomes Ela’s entry point to see the shift in the position of the hips and womanhood generally considered a symbol of fertility. The hips can be seen as the center of sexuality; expressive, personal, and intimate. However, for Ela, the hips are the main axis of movement that contains the meaning of the span of events in the past and present, between the transcendent and the profane, the private and the public, and between the body and the stage. Ela sees that the hips are proven to be adaptive, as it moves and becomes moved by the movement of the era.

Credits:
Choreographer: Ela Mutiara
Dancer: Ela Mutiara
Composer: Gin Gigin

📍 Teater Wahyu Sihombing, Taman Ismail Marzuki