I set a daily ritual of walking and dancing in my neighbourhood, as a way of mapping through bodies and movement. I try to find dance in this neighbourhood: what dance already exists here, who dances, where does it happen, what does dance mean, to them, in this place…
“Land Me” was inspired by a story of a woman who feels the memories of her past body and grows into another, one that has not been found in her sense of life.
“Dancing of Lament: Ibuku Menangis, Bumiku Meronta” starts from an anxiety about the fading relationship between human and mother nature.
The events your body goes through are connected to the imagination of a practice, to which the process of life takes place every moment so history can continue to reign in the mentality of life. How farmers lose their land to grow crops.
The traditional Tidung people in North Kalimantan believe in a traditional healing ritual known as besitan. This ritual is performed to cure the condition called selinat, which refers to a state in which a person loses control over himself.
When the universe offers the hero a new unknown path, be it a space or place, the first thing that appears within is fear, doubt, uncertainty and anxiety. The unknown is always scary. The hero begins to run away from responsibility, from circumstances, from reality, from his own fear, but it was not there.
Cherish your piece of heaven, cherish all you have, for all shall be gone when the time comes. Your love, your legacy, your life, have you truly lived it to the fullest?
An online public discussion for choreographers involved in Indonesian Dance Festival's program, Layar Terkembang 2022 Body and Rasa in Terra Incognita. Thirteen choreographers and 2 curators will share their artistic processes in relation to the curatorial theme.
Dermaga Bincang Tari is a critical choreography dialog platform that invites multidisciplinary artists and researchers that focus on body language, technology, and digital platforms, be it local or international.
Through reflection and research, IDF 2022 curatorial team reinterprets “rasa”, while exploring its conceptual footprints from different cultural experiences. This effort is intended to offer alternative perspectives on “rasa.” This dialogue opens up opportunities for the audience to peek into IDF’s curatorial behind-the-scenes alongside four speakers involved in the formulation of RASA: Beyond Bodies, the festival theme for 2022.
The spectres of choreography in the context of this archive exhibition has nothing to do with the astral concept where psychic phenomena take place. The spectres here, in contrast, is closely related to the history of materialism concept, where various cultural and artistic dance practices are formed. This exhibition archive is put together to mark and get to know the spectres of choreography that shadowed our past dance practices, ones that we inherit today.
IDF 2022 Opening Night is an opportunity to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the festival. Within 7 days, the festival will host 7 evening performances, 6 Kampana performances, 8 workshops, 4 Dance Talks, Vasana Tari archive exhibition, and Lokapasar – a retail area for Indonesian products and IDF limited edition merchandise in collaboration with local communities.
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