‘The Smell of The Soul’: A Spiritually Soulful Cabaret
For most people, the word “cabaret” evokes visions of the colorful displays of energetic chorus lines of sassy, bawdily dressed can-can performers, and the Moulin Rouge dance hall in Paris, immortalized in the Baz Luhrmann musical of the same name. But two movement theater specialists, Canadian playwright Erika Batdorf and German two-piece band with accordion more »
Toy-Inspired Optical Art Pops Out in Bali
When Irene Hoff moved to Bali two years ago she promised herself that she would rediscover her inner child. Fast forward to today and the Dutch contemporary artist, who has called Asia home for the past 12 years, is telling a story about the heroics of having fun and just being who you are, through more »
Photos That Capture Reality
When Rebecca Viveash was still a teenager, she had two passions: horses and art. After school, she decided that she would focus on the first one, and lived in Bangalore , India, for a while to train horses. “I stopped doing that when I was 23,” she said. “When you reach a certain age, and more »
Switching Up the Traditions of the Tango
One by one the dancers entered the mock stage, marked by a series of small masking tape on the vast rehearsal room. They gently step into position, dragging their feet across the black-painted wooden floor as the choreographer, internationally renowned Dutch dancer Neel Verdoorn, observed from one end, in front of a wall of mirrors. more »
Artists From Bali and S. Korea’s Jeju Island Share Much in Common
Despite the distance between them, the islands of Bali and Jeju, South Korea, share much in common. Both are distinctive in their dramatic volcanic landscapes, traditional cultures and rapid economic development. The islands’ similarities laid the groundwork for a formal “sister province” cooperation agreement between the administrations of Bali and Jeju, and a recent intercultural more »
Art Confronts Maldives’ Climate Change Controversy
Venice. On the quay leading to the Arsenale exhibition complex, a block of ice melts in a rare blast of spring warmth. Elsewhere in the city, coconuts were bob on the choppy waters of the canals during the opening week of the 55th Venice Biennale. The ice and the coconuts were both works of art more »
Jakarta Artist Andro Obsessed With Death
Andro Kristian’s drawings grab you. Designed to evoke the most uncomfortable of emotions, the Jakarta-bred artist’s darkly nuanced illustrations convey a theme of sorrow and death, and although there is an off-kilter playfulness in their vintage-children-book style, Andro’s pieces will seemingly never shake off his fixation with mortality. At a relatively young 26, why the more »
Jakarta Players Star in ‘An Inspector Calls’
A mysterious suicide, the involvement of a notorious family and an inspector scrutinizing every family member to get to the bottom of this unfortunate death. These are only some of the twists in “An Inspector Calls,” a play written by J.B. Priestley that was first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and in the more »
Jakarta Traditions Set for a Comeback
Jakarta continues to be at the cutting edge of Indonesia’s economic, social and political development, due to its size and standing as the nation’s capital. But its rise to a sprawling metropolis comes at a price. Some argue the city is losing its cultural soul and with it, the identity of its traditional Betawi people. more »
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