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    EKOSDANCE

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     A powerful voice in Indonesian contemporary dance.  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • About

    Founded by Eko Supriyanto, the company works across the Indonesian archipelago, creating works of silent tourism and exploring what it means to dive beneath the surface.

     

      

     

     

  • CRY JAILOLO

    (Duration 55 minutes)

     

    "An extraordinary and captivating piece of work"

     

     

     

     

     

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    BALABALA

    Five young female dancers from Jailolo give voice to the remote community of Eastern Indonedia. Slow, rhythmic movement patterns create an image of strength, not in protest nor opposition but through the carving of space. Space for the individual amidst the noise of duties. A space of potential, of creation - held by the women of remote regions.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    DAUNT IN SOYA SOYA

    The dynamic of our human characters within its embodied environments, with its contrast or unity between toughness and softness, masculinity and femininity.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • SALT

    After the international success of Cry Jailolo and Balabala, both created with youths of Jailolo, North Maluku, Eko Supriyanto turns his gaze towards himself in a new solo work.

     

    Engaging in a web of relations between his Javanese heritage and the shifting tides of maritime culture, SALT takes the forms of Jatilan (Javanese folk trance traditions?) and Cakele (war dance form North Maluku) and places them within the state of anti- gravity.

  • IBUIBU BELU: Bodies of Borders

    Following the international success of his acclaimed works Cry Jailolo, Balabala and SALT, Indonesian dancer and choreographer Eko Supriyanto sets his sights further east to explore the unique dance traditions and rituals of the Indonesian region of Belu in Nusa Tenggara Timur. IBUIBU BELU is the culmination of two years of research into the Likurai, a dance tradition which forms a vital thread in the social fabric across the island of Timor.

     

    Through his exploration of movement, rhythm, songs and textile traditions Supriyanto makes manifest the ways in which Likurai dance carries the kinship of people who are now divided by politically imposed borders separating Nusa Tenggara Timur and neighbouring Timor-Leste. These memories are embodied in the five dancers - one of whom originates from East Timor - and their lived histories as expressed in Likurai, paradoxical proof that bodies challenge political boundaries while at the same time remaining restricted by them.

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    EKO SUPRIYANTO

    Founder and artistic director for EkosDance Company and Solo Dance Studio in Surakarta Indonesia, Eko is the leading Indonesian dancer and choreographer of his generation.

     

    Trained in Javanese court dances and the Indonesian martial arts of Pencak Silat since the age of seven Eko’s performance career spans major works and tours throughout Indonesia, Europe, America and the Asia Pacific. Eko holds a PhD in Performance Studies (2014) from Gadjah Mada University and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance and Choreography from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures (2001).

     

    Eko’s performance career stretches between major commercial productions to dance research projects. He was enlisted as a dance consultant for Julie Taymor’s Lion King Broadway production and choreographed and performed for major international productions including Peter Sellars Le Grand Macabre, John Adam’s Opera Flowering Tree in Vienna, the Barbican Centre in London and the Lincoln Center in New York, Garin Nugroho’s Opera Jawa, MAU Lemi Ponifasio’s Tempest, Solid.States with Arco Renz, and was a featured dancer in Madonna’s 2001 Drowned World.

     

    His recent major work is Cry Jailolo with seven youth dancers from Jailolo North Maluku and will be touring in Japan, Australia and Europe in August- October 2015. Most recent performance research on the Body Embodiment of Indonesian Dancers is connected to his work on maritime culture entitled The Future of Dance is Under Water.

     

  • CONTACT

    Isa Natadiningrat,

    Ph: +62 811918877

    Email: isa.natadiningrat@yahoo.com

     

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