WARNING :
– Limited to 12 years and over.
– The performance includes Strobe Lighting, Haze Effects, and Loud Sound that may prove disturbing to some members of the audience.
Reality has always been augmented—by the limits of our human perception. “Sky Blue Mythic” sees the body alienated, and the alien embodied. Worlds loom, times loop, gestures distill and meanings distort.
“Sky Blue Mythic” approaches dance as a non-human entity—existing on timescales longer than our cultural narratives, in spaces beyond the locality of the body, and forms unknowable to human-centric sensing—as a method towards opening ways to know dance, the body, and time, differently. It imagines gestures as symbols that can translate, morph and stretch meaning across times, dimensions, and worlds. In a quest to move away from anthropocentrism, “Sky Blue Mythic” allows dance to alienate itself from human expression, in turn requiring the body to become an interface rather than a vehicle.
Artist/Choreographer/Performer: Angela Goh | Composer/Sound Designer: Corin Ileto | Lighting designer: Govin Ruben | Technical operator: Matt Cornell
Retno Sulistyorini
Retno Sulistyorini began learning dance at the age of 15 at the Indonesian Karawitan High School (SMKI) Surakarta, and continued to study dance at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Surakarta. As a dance artist, Retno was awarded the Empowering Women Artist by the Kelola Foundation (2010-2011). Apart from creating her own works, she also actively collaborates with other choreographers, directors and artists.