TERAin Jakarta/Bandung
Tera, the starting point of TERASIA, which premiered in Tokyo in 2018 and has undergone various transformations in different areas, now appears for the first time in Jakarta and Bandung in a new guise.
Sugiyanti Ariani plays the main character, Mitsuko Kyogoku, who takes on myriad roles in the play from a young girl to a Buddha. Musician Lawe Samagaha will perform an interactive session with the audience using Japanese Buddhist instruments and instruments of his own creation. Director Yukari Sakata, dramaturg Maho Watanabe, and Buddhist monk Taiki Yoshikawa joins from Japan in this special new work for Sua TERASIA, the first transnational collaboration of its kind.
Sugiyanti Ariani plays the main character, Mitsuko Kyogoku, who takes on myriad roles in the play from a young girl to a Buddha. Musician Lawe Samagaha will perform an interactive session with the audience using Japanese Buddhist instruments and instruments of his own creation. Director Yukari Sakata, dramaturg Maho Watanabe, and Buddhist monk Taiki Yoshikawa joins from Japan in this special new work for Sua TERASIA, the first transnational collaboration of its kind.
Performance
TERA in Jakarta/Bandung
Director: Yukari Sakata
Performance: Sugiyanti Ariani
Music: Lawe Samagaha
Dramaturg: Maho Watanabe
Special appearance: Taiki Yoshikawa
Interpretation: Tomomi Yokosuka, Dyah Ayu Kusumawardhani
Subtitle supervisor: Andri Nur Latif
[Overview]
- Jakarta
Venue-J1: Komunitas Utan Kayu - Kedai Tempo
Time and Date: 20:00-20:45, January 12, 2024
Venue-J2: Teater Kubur - Studio
Time and Date: 20:00-20:45, January 13, 2024
*Followed by a talk-back session (until 21:30)
- Bandung
Venue-B2: ISBI Bandung - Studio Teater
Time and Date: 19:30-20:15, January 17, 2024
Venue-B1: Selasar Sunaryo Art Space - Kopi Selasar
Time and Date: 19:30-20:15, January 19, 2024
Language: Indonesian with English surtitles
Artists
Yukari Sakata
Yukari Sakata graduated from the Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment at Tokyo University of the Arts, then honed her skills working as a stage technician at theatres around Japan. At Festival/Tokyo 2014, she directed “Rashomon | Yabunonaka” in collaboration with Al-Kasaba Theatre from Palestine. In recent years, she has experimented with applying the ideas and techniques of theatre to the format of the exhibition. Her long-term project “Dear Gullivers” with the architect Jorge Martín García was featured in the Spanish pavilion at the 16th Venice Biennale in 2018. Sakata employs collaboration with existing narratives as a means of attempting artistic interventions in communities.
Sugiyanti Ariani
Sugiyanti Ariani was born in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. In 2014, she completed her master’s degree at STSI Bandung/Indonesian Art School of Bandung (now ISBI Bandung), majoring in Research and Creating of Art (theatre). She was awarded the Kelola Foundation’s Art Grant for Innovative Artwork in 2014—with which she created, directed, and performed Maem Mendut: Semangka Pati—and the best actress award at the 2018 Festival Drama Bahasa Sunda (FDBS) in West Java. For her international work, she collaborated with the Centre for Australasian Theatre (CfAT) in Cairns, Australia on the project Cultural Cargo – CARGO CLUB: Trading Stories (2015–17). From 2016 to 2019, she was selected to perform in Dionysus, directed by Tadashi Suzuki in the joint project between Bumi Purnati Indonesia and Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), at the SCOT Summer Festival 2018, Singapore International Festival of Art (SIFA) 2019, and Theatre Olympics 2019 in Japan. She is now preparing for another collaboration with CfAT for 2022–23.
Lawe Samagaha
Lawe Samagaha studied painting with T Nitya AS in Jakarta. After founding the sound group Sunya (2000), he studied composition with the composer Yasudah in Solo (2001), moved to Bandung to study composition with Dodi Satya EG, and registered as a student at STSI Bandung (graduated 2011, without diploma). He also studied composition with Slamet Abdul Syukur (2004). As a musician and composer, he has participated in many festivals around the world, including Donaueschinger Musiktage in Germany (2004), Iwp Pakistan (2006), Wdf Malaysia and Taiwan (2008), Kadans Festival in Belgium and the Netherlands (2009), Next Trace Singapore (2015), Music Mistic Fest Turki (2015), and ICF Azerbaijan (2018).
Maho Watanabe
Maho Watanabe is a translator and dramaturg who works in and around art, media, and humanitarian work. In 2014, during her year abroad in the West Bank as an Arabic Studies student, she joined the director Yukari Sakata in Rashomon | Yabunonaka, a theatre co-production by Palestinian and Japanese artists. This marked her first involvement in performing arts, followed by numerous international collaboration projects, festivals, and workshops. Her translation of Lilac Duhaa (Death in the Era of IS) by Palestinian playwright Ghannam Ghannam won the 2019 Odashima Yushi Award for Drama Translation. She served as dramaturg for the original production of TERA (2018), and in May 2020, she was part of initiating TERASIA with Kop in Thailand and other artists. She is an Asian Cultural Council fellow for 2022.