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RE-ENVIRONMENT:

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTISTS' WORKSHOP & COLLABORATION

BACKGROUND

Yogyakarta is a cultural city where many visual artists and performing artists actively explore new art approach possibilities. For example, the exploration of environmental art which their exhibitions or performances are at the nature environment or public spaces. Some visual artists have been provocatively creating environmental arts since 1980s (Heri Dono, Dadang Kristianto, Entang Wiharso, etc) and continued from generation to generation until now. In other side, production of environmental performing arts like “Meta Ekologi” (Sardono W Kusuma, 1970s) or “Kembali ke alam” (Bagong Kussudiardja, 1980s) did not followed by young generation. Nevertheless, some young performing artists lately work on the environment spaces.

Martinus Miroto

Martinus Miroto, (born: 23 Feb. 1959) has been creating more than 40 contemporary works and performed in various countries in Europe, Asia, USA, Australia. He is a dancer, actor, choreographer, and dance instructor at the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI Jogjakarta). Founder: Miroto Dance Company in 1986, The Miroto Dance Foundation in 1998, Dance studio-theater “Studio Tari Banjarmili” in 2001. Began to learned traditional dance when he was 5 years in his village, Turusan.

Penumbra

This theater-studio is located at Bedhog river side, 5 km west of the center of Yogyakarta city (Tugu point) 10 minutes by taxi, 15 km from adisucipto airport or 25 minutes by taxi via north ring road.

• Land : 3.000 meter square
• Outdoor Plataran & River spaces
• Indoor studio : 17m x 18m
• Audience space : 12m x 8m

• Capacity : 100 – 150 audiences
• Facilities : black vinyl floor, stage sound system, general halogen light.
• Additional simple rooms: kitchen, toilet / shower, dressing,Office