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Benedictus Suharto, continued
| Notes: 1. The National Dance Academy of Indonesia which later merged into ISI, the Indonesia College of the Arts. 2. The video of this performance is kept at the Dance Collection, Library of Performing Arts, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. 3. This performance was produced and documented in video by the World Music Institute in cooperation with the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Dance Collection, New York. 4. See “Transformation and Mystical Aspects of Javanese Dance,” UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology 14 (1990), pp.22- 25; “Joged and Jagad,” a lecture at the Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta, 25 October 1990; and “Tari dalam Pandangan Kebudayaan,” Seni I, 1 (Mei 1991). 4a.Ben Suharto, “Transformation and Mystical Aspects of Javanese Dance,” UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology 14 (1990). Pp. 22-25. 5. Some Javanese believe that Javanese mysticism had been in trend as early as the 16th century. 6. Saptono, Klenengan “Muryararas” di Klaten, Report on Performing Arts, compiled by graduate students of Performing Arts Studies, Gadhah Mada University, Yogyakarta, for my course Writing on Performing Arts, 1994, pp.131-32. 7. Mas Kayam literally means elder brother Kayam (professor Doctor Umar Kayam), well known novelist, lecturer, sociologist, former co-Chair of the Jakarta Arts Council, and former Head of the Research Center for Social and Cultural Change, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. 8. This description is based on In Memoriam Sahabat Kami Ben Suharto, Seni, Special Edition, December 1997, pp.viii-ix. 8a. Srimpi is the name of Javanese court dance performed by two couples of female dancers portraying the ideal characters of Javanese women: elegant (luwes), steady and tranquil (anteng), noble (jatmika), with her gaze penetrating deeply (tajem). |
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