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REFLEKT: Body Migration - I Do (n’t) Want

Dance Performance and Discussion|Between memory, nostalgia, and sensation. A choreography by Siska Aprisia in collaboration with Jay Afrisando that was developed during the REFLEKT residency program with TanzFaktur (Cologne, Germany).

  • GoetheHaus Jakarta, Jakarta

  • English, Indonesian
  • Free of charge | With registration
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REFLEKT: Body Migration - I Do (n’t) Want © Oliver Stroemer, TanzFaktur, Goethe-Institut Indonesia & Each Other Company

REFLEKT: Body Migration - I Do (n’t) Want © Oliver Stroemer, TanzFaktur, Goethe-Institut Indonesia & Each Other Company

Bodies move, and movements migrate: with or without choice or voice. Between displacement and visibility, the reasons for leaving are varied—often simplified in humanity’s quest to resist and endure—and never fully articulated. Yet, it is also the whole process: in contemporary times, it’s the border crossings and the repetition of questions—being asked why and how. In the olden days, it was the salient ways in which we acted, the echoes of geographies, and the contained fracture of time.

Built from close observations of migrant experiences across race, tribe, and skin colour—including the artist’s own—this work-in-progress takes us into the sound and body of relocated memories and feelings. In “Body Migration – I Do (n’t) Want”, movement becomes more than choreography: it is a manifestation of methods for reassembling, reclaiming, and recalling. Gestures and rhythm evoke, holding what has been dislocated—moving between memory, nostalgia, and sensation.

“Body Migration – I Do (n’t) Want” is a work by Siska Aprisia, developed during the REFLEKT residency programme with TanzFaktur in Cologne, Germany, in 2024. The REFLEKT residency is a Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia initiative that fosters shared artistic collaborations, critical reflections, and creative re-learnings, initiated in 2023.

The presentation will be followed by a post-performance conversation with Siska Aprisia and Jay Afrisando, together with a literary writer from Minangkabau, Esha Tegar Putra and a storyteller, Kennya Rinonce.

Biography

  • born 1992 in Pariaman, Indonesia, holds a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts and a Master's in Dance Creation from Institut Seni Indonesia Padangpanjang. Her work, rooted in Ulu Ambek Silat and personal journeys, spans dance, theater, film, and installation. Active as a dancer, choreographer, lecturer, and arts festival consultant, Siska's work has been featured at Artjog, Sasikirana Dance Camp, and internationally.

  • is a composer, multimedia artist, researcher, and educator whose artistic practice explores aural diversity, disability, and access as sources of creativity across various methods and media. He is currently a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin 2024–25 resident while also serving as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

  • is a literary writer from Minangkabau, West Sumatra. His body of work includes poetry, prose, plays, and cultural criticism. He previously worked as a researcher for the Archives and Collections Commission of the Jakarta Arts Council and has curated several archival exhibitions on the history of art. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in Literary Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia.

  • is a storyteller who works across theatre, dance, and live events as her creative mediums. She has taken part in a cultural residency in Aotearoa/New Zealand through the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture (as a Pegiat Budaya) and worked with the Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy on a dance community programme in Wakatobi, Sulawesi. After earning her undergraduate degree in Visual Art and Design from ITB (2013), she focused her studies on interdisciplinary performance, receiving a Master of Arts from UCL, UK (2020). She currently serves on the Dance Committee of the Jakarta Arts Council.

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