Working with the body and voice, Angela Goh invites participants to explore the mechanisms of choreographic construction.

This Masterclass introduces the core principles of Taiji Quan and their creative application in the performing arts. We will practice a set of physical principles relating to breathing patterns and the merging of opposing poles such as in-out, open-close, gather-disperse.

“No. 60” is not a choreographic pose or movement but it is a “principle of the dance practice” that consists of the combination of six elements. Participants will learn about the six elements and how to adapt them in order to find their own dance identities.

In this workshop, Eyi Lesar will invite participants to play games such as the traditional childhood game, Gobak Sodor. Participants will explore integrating choreography, games and sports, while considering intentions and the impact on one's body's motor response within a space.

Instead of considering limitations as a constraint, it can actually be seen as guidelines for achieving freedom. This method of limitation is a space for body construction that Hari Ghurur works on to explore new possibilities of repetitive motion, so that organic and expressive motion emerges.

Imagination enables humans to create or transform something ordinary into the extraordinary, even when its form is still a fleeting thought in mind. This workshop hopes to be a space to spark participants’ creativity in using the body, things, and spaces around them.

In the body, muscles are the main connective tissue that regulates all our activities. In this class, participants are invited to increase muscle awareness which is crucial in carrying out the multiple functions of the body, in both for professional dancers and daily activities.

Body exploration is highly important, acting as the basics of cultivating potential in the body, as a pre-dance class. This practice is synergized with movement exploration, to produce the ability to synchronise imagination and body capacity to illustrate ideas, may it be one or many.

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 important thing to note from IDF's curatorial practice is the collaborative approach that involves several people. This allows IDF's artistic vision to be built and realized through various perspectives. In 2022, IDF will work with six curators across generations and countries to develop and reiterate the theme RASA: Beyond Bodies into all the elements of the festival.

In collaboration with Invisible Dance, a project by Goethe-Institut India and Indonesia In this conversation, the speaker will exchange their experiences of the art laboratory practice before reflecting on the dynamics of the arts and social fields encountered in Indonesia, regional and international. In addition, this conversation will also open a space to think together about how dance can be or has become a vehicle for social change, connecting with local communities and engaging in alternative international networks.

Departing from the regeneration process that is being carried out by IDF and several other art organizations in Indonesia in the last few years, the four speakers presented will provide readings and meanings of regeneration from their own experience.

By clashing artifacts and works, objects and performativity, conceptual and historical, Mella Jaarsma confronts us with situations that are out of the ordinary for the body and what we cover it with, presenting experiences that are between that of the real and the imaginary. The Indonesian Dance Festival in collaboration with ROH holds an artist talk program to explore more in terms of performativity in Mella Jaarsma's artistic practice.