The Mystical Gender in the Intersection of Artistic Stage and Daily Life
Dance works that display gender expressions outside the binary are often framed as forms of artistic expression related to issues of equality and human rights.
Exploring the Minds of Yogyakarta Dance Practitioners
Five young choreographers performed their works, dance practitioners exchanged insights, while performing arts managers collaborated to make Lawatari: Yogyakarta happen.
Celebrating Contemporary Dance at Padang Panjang. How Awesome!
Lawatari Padang Panjang, held on 6-7 December 2023, was the second program in the Lawatari series leading up to Indonesian Dance Festival 2024.
Arts Management: Assembling Space for Collective Growth
This workshop offers insights into the design and management of dance platforms -both practically and conceptually- which IDF developed over 31 years as a starting point. In this workshop participants will be actively involved in mapping and analyzing various current art platforms, developing existing practices, and exploring the latest ideas.
Arts Management: Assembling Space for Collective Growth
This workshop offers insights into the design and management of dance platforms -both practically and conceptually- which IDF developed over 31 years as a starting point. In this workshop participants will be actively involved in mapping and analyzing various current art platforms, developing existing practices, and exploring the latest ideas.
Curators’ Meet Up
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.
Introducing RASA: Beyond Bodies
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.
Linda Mayasari
Curator of IDF
Dermaga Bincang Tari – Billowing Sails : Body and Rasa in Terra Incognita series
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.
Dermaga Bincang Tari: Artist Talk – Billowing Sails : Body and Rasa in Terra Incognita series
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.
Marzuki Hasan & Nurdin Daud: Half a Century of Stunning the World with Acehnese Dances
Marzuki Hasan and Nurdin Daud have made significant updates both in the structure and tradition of Acehnese dances, that they could appeal to a wider audience, especially the younger generations.
Dermaga Bincang Tari – Billowing Sails Virtual Bodies series
An online public discussion for choreographers involved in Indonesian Dance Festival’s program, Layar Terkembang 2021 Virtual Bodies series. Five choreographers will share their artistic processes in relation to the curatorial theme, Virtual Bodies.
Dermaga Bincang Tari – Billowing Sails Mandala Bodies Series
Dermaga Bincang Tari is a platform for critical choreography dialogs in the form of a virtual symposium. This program is intended to be a space for exchange of ideas for dance and interdisciplinary artists as well as researchers, local or international, whose practices relate to body discourse in the context of the dynamics of contemporary society today.