da:ns festival 2015 Cry Jailolo House Programme

14 & 15 Oct 2015

Wed & Thu, 8pm Esplanade Theatre Studio

by Eko Supriyanto

Indonesia

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Photo by Bari Paramarta Islam

1hr, no intermission

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Festival Message Where has the time gone? da:ns festival turns 10 this year and it seems like only yesterday when we presented our first edition.

At da:ns festival, our sense of time shifts. As we watch bodies move on stage, or as we ourselves dance, time as we know it, is suspended, and we become attuned to time driven by the body and its unique rhythms in movement. Over the years, we hope the festival has given you several experiences and memories that have expanded your sense of movement, and opened you up to different expressions of dance.

The festival team has had the pleasure of creating this dedicated event, growing a myriad of platforms in our festival that support the development of dance. To encourage more people of all ages to try dancing, we have worked with Singapore dance studios to provide fun and easy dance lessons that everyone can enjoy both inside our rehearsal studio, outdoors along our waterfront and around Singapore. Last year, we welcomed over 28,000 participants to these sessions and the overall da:ns festival has doubled in audience size since it’s first year.

To support the creation of new dance works, da:ns festival commissions, co-produces and provides residencies for artists. This has led to long-lasting relationships with artists we deeply admire for their dedication and creativity, and enabled 23 new dance creations, the majority from Asian dance-makers.

So this year, for our special 10th anniversary, we have invited several of these artists to celebrate this special occasion with us, some of whom are marking significant milestones in their own personal careers. We host the legendary Sylvie Guillem, who returns to da:ns festival with her final world tour before retiring from 35 years of dancing, while Singapore choreographer Kuik Swee Boon creates a work that brings together leading dance-makers in their 40s back to the stage.

The festival would have not been possible without our supportive audience of dance lovers, the dance-makers who continually inspire us, our festival sponsors and partners who have shared our belief in the significance of dance in our lives, and our group of dedicated festival volunteers—the da:ns Kaki Ambassadors.

With deep gratitude to everyone— thank you for being part of 10 years of da:ns festival together.

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Esplanade’s da:ns festival programming team (L-–R: Marlene Ditzig, Iris Cheung, Faith Tan, Emily J Hoe, Rydwan Anwar, Christel Hon & Shireen Abdullah.

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Choreographer’s Message

Cry Jailolo has been a process of diving; of plunging beneath the surface and into Indonesia’s maritime culture, beyond the more common rhetoric of Javanese land and courts. Here, within the waters that make up 80% of Indonesia reside movement forms that speak volumes for both the collective and individual experience of Indonesia today. Jailolo has taught me that the true beauty of the world resides beneath the surface— from the forms and intelligence of schooling fish to the social make up of the communities. The Jailolo society is a woven combination of different tribes, Christian and Muslim households, churches and mosques living side by side. Within these potentially complex combinations, the communities have developed sophisticated structures that uphold the peace in the region.

The dancers themselves derive from a combination of tribes and Christian and Muslim farming families. Before joining the process of this work, the only future these boys could aspire to was to join the military or police force.

Cry Jailolo belongs to the dancers you see here on stage. It was developed from their own histories and movement traditions over the two years I spent working in the region. Ultimately, it is a work that provides a platform for their voices, for the potential of youth in remote communities.

Diving in the waters of Jailolo has been one of the greatest gifts and challenges of my career thus far. I have come to believe that—for me at least— the future of dance lies underwater.

- Eko Supriyanto

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About

Eko Supriyanto

Founder and artistic director for Ekos Dance 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, ranging from commercial productions, stage works and dance research projects.

He was enlisted as a dance consultant for Julie Taymor’s Lion King Broadway production, has choreographed for and performed in major international productions including Peter Sellars’ Le Grand Macabre; John Adam’s Opera Flowering Tree in Vienna, the Barbican Centre London and the Lincoln Center New York; Garin Nugroho’s Opera Jawa; MAU Lemi Ponifasio’s Tempest; and was a featured dancer in Madonna’s Drowned World tour. Recent productions include Solid.States with Arco Renz, which premiered at STUK theatre in Leuven Belgium; FireFireFire, a Goethe Institut Tanzconnexions production; and dance research projects in Freiburg, Germany.

Eko holds a PhD in Performance studies from the Gadjah Mada University (2014) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance and Choreography from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures (2001). His most recent performance research on Body Embodiment of Indonesian Dancers is connected to his work in Jailolo, titled The Future of Dance is Under Water.

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Biographies Geri Krisdianto

Arco Renz

Assistant Choreographer

Dramaturg

Geri is a professional dancer based in Bandung, Indonesia. Working in the performing arts and commercial dance industry, his projects include Beta Love Indonesia Kinarya Guruh Soekarno Putra, Sri Dream Kinarya Guruh Soekarno Putra, major musicals, video clips and television series Boy and Girl Band Indonesia (BGBI) SCTV, with Jury Kevin Aprilio. He was the choreographer for SMASH, Princess and Tatis. Since 2010, Geri has worked with Eko Supriyanto as a dancer on selected projects. He is rehearsal director and assistant choreographer for Cry Jailolo.

Arco Renz is artistic director of Brussels-based dance company Kobalt Works. He works as choreographer, director, dancer, actor and dramaturg. In the past 15 years, Kobalt Works|Arco Renz have created over 25 eveninglength choreographies in Europe and Asia, as well as numerous commissioned works for Opera Houses and companies around the world.

Budiawan Saputra Riring

Date of birth: 28 Oct 1997 Tribe: sahu

Prior to the 2015 Cry Jailolo tour, Budiawan performed in Sasadu On the Sea and Festival Teluk Jailolo, 2013 and 2014.

Noveldi Bontenan

Date of birth: 22 Nov 1994 Tribe: Sanger and Wayoli

Prior to the Cry Jailolo tour this year, Noveldi performed in Sasadu On the Sea, Festival Teluk Jailolo 2013 and 2014, and Semalam di Jailolo (A Night In Jailolo), Jakarta 2013.

Fernandito Wangelaha

Date of birth: 17 Jan 1997 Tribe: Sahu

Gerry Gerardo Bella

Date of birth: 9 Aug 1996 Tribe: Tobelo

Greatsia Yobel Yunga

Date of birth: 18 Sep1995 Tribe: sahu

Veyndi Dangsa

Date of birth: 10 Dec 1996 Tribe: Sahu

Prior to their Cry Jailolo tour this year, Fernandito, Gerry, Greatsia and Veyndi performed in TARI13’s 8th international dance festival, Dancing Across Borders in Malaysia, Sasadu On the Sea, Festival Teluk Jailolo 2013 and 2014, and Semalam di Jailolo (A Night In Jailolo), Jakarta 2013.

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Arco Renz’ activities are currently focusing on the field of contemporary dance. He creates works that reveal an intense physicality and explore the emotional force of abstraction.

An important aspect of Arco’s activities is his engagement in projects promoting the development of research and exchange between European and Asian artists.

For more detailed www.kobaltworks.be

information,

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Iskandar K. Loedin

Lighting Designer, Scenographer

Iskandar K. Loedin has been actively involved in designing various theatre and dance performances since 1996 and had worked with Robert Wilson (USA), Robert Draffin (Australia) Sophiline Shapiro (Cambodia), Pichet Klunchun (Thailand). Besides Eko Supriyanto, he also worked with many Indonesian directors/ choreographers, such as, Sardono W. Kusumo, Retno Maruti, (the late) Gusmiati Suid, Boy G. Sakti, Hartati, M. Miroto, Mugiyono Kasido, Jecko Siempo, N. Riantiarno and Putu Wijaya.

Iskandar Loedin was trained by Jennifer Tipton at the Design Department at the Yale School of Drama, Yale University, USA.

Tang Fu Kuen

Producer

Tang Fu Kuen is an independent dramaturg, curator and producer of contemporary performance and visual fields, working in Asia and Europe. He was the sole curator of the Singapore pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, presenting artist Ming Wong, receiving a special jury mention. He has worked in the Singapore Arts Festival, Indonesian Dance Festival, In Transit Festival (Berlin), Bangkok Fringe Festival, Colombo Dance Platform (Sri Lanka), amongst others, and curated a platform for Exodos Festival in Ljubljana in April 2013.

He produces and manages for contemporary Asian dance and performance makers: Pichet Klunchun (Thailand) Daniel Kok (Singapore), Choy Ka Fai (Singapore) and Eisa Jocson (Philippines). He continues to collaborate with artist Ming Wong (Berlin).

did you know?

Cry Jailolo developed during Eko’s involvement in a tourism festival, for which he was invited to work with youths from the Jailolo community for two years.

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Eko was chosen by Madonna to be

one of the dancers on her Drowned World tour around the United States and Europe in 2001, after outshining

6000 other candidates from around the world.

The piece is a contemporary interpretation of traditional dance forms inspired by the

Legu Salai dance from the Sahu tribe and

Soya-Soya dance from North Maluku.

Eko was enlisted as a dance consultant for Julie Taymor’s Lion King Broadway production.

He was first taught to dance by his grandfather Djojoparjitno, a classical Javanese dancer.

Eko was determined

to become a traditional dancer in Magelang when he

was in elementary school.

He majored in Economics during senior vocational high school, and studied Balinese dance, martial arts as well as modern dance.

Despite being teased by his friends for choosing dance as an extra curricular subject, Eko continued his studies in the artform.

Eko graduated with a Master’s of Fine Art in Performing Arts at the University of California Los Angeles in the USA, and holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

Eko’s most recent performance research on the Body Embodiment of Indonesian Dancers is connected to his work on maritime culture entitled The Future of Dance lies Under Water.

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Production List Choreographer

Eko Supriyanto Assistant Choreographer

Geri Krisdianto Music Composition

Setyawan Jayantoro Dramaturg

Arco Renz Dancers

Budiawan Saputra Riring Fernandito Wangelaha Geri Krisdianto Gerry Gerardo Bella Greatsia Yobel Yunga Noveldi Bontenan Veyndi Dangsa Scenographer

Iskandar K. Loedin Costume Designer

Retno Tan Production Team

Astri Kusuma Wardani Eko Wahyudi R Danang Cahyo W. Tour Manager

Isa Natadiningrat Producer

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