Essays

25.05.2010  ::  Few theories of the body have been formulated in Indonesia to date, and theoretical writings on the body are generally embedded within texts concerned with health, social, political, economic (industrial) and gender specific issues. I am yet to encounter a text which considers the body from an artistic perspective.More ...

13.08.2009  ::  Traditional Dance in Malaysia is a sum of indigenous traditions and passing ethnic communities.More ...

13.08.2009  ::  The promotion of international exchange has long since become an integral part of the everyday experience of artists in the field of contemporary dance. But political agendas are proving to be a stumbling block for artistic projects with increasing frequency.More ...

13.08.2009  ::  Contemporary choreographers are all fired up about the avant-garde – both yesterday’s and yesteryear’s. With their fingers on the pulse of the time, choreographers are archaeologists who excavate within the seldom tangible sphere of a fleeting art form. In doing so, they raise new questions about their own artistic function. German modern expressionist dance is surfacing. Reconstructions and recreations sit well with modern dance’s notion of hybridity.More ...

25.09.2009  ::  A nonlinear personal demonstration by choreographer Thomas Lehmen, given at the Dance Summit “Transforming Tradition” at Goethe Institute Jakarta 5th of August 2009. More ...

There's a buzz of excitement beneath the audience's seats. An entire orchestra seems to have installed itself somewhere down below. The sound of Stavinski's seminal composition Le sacre du printemps, separated stringently into individual instrumental groups, drifts upwards through the gaps and cracks between the seats to the audience's attentive ears.More ...