Mapfest 2016 Booklet

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ma
melaka
art &
performance
festival
MAP FEST
25,26,27
NOV
2016
ST PAULS HILL
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selamat datang / from our patron
selamat datang
Melaka Arts and Performance
Festival (MAPFest) has reached 8
years since its inception. Its that
fleeting feeling when things are
good and something dinstinct has
developed like a child with its own
unique personality.
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MAP has developed a philosophical

vigor. The festival is now a rich
ground where artists from different
displines, background and levels of
accomplisment can find a punctum
for creation, collloboration,
exchange and creative
experimentation.
Differences and always returning to
the origin, the source where all
creative power starts. We remind
ourselves of why we exist and the
inexhaustable way enthusiam for
life is propelled through art.
Map has won many awards within
the areas of arts and global
community. Bold ideas are freely
accessible for everyone and in
inexpensive ways. MAP is a strong
and rich cultural emersion for the
visiting artists and spectators.
This festival is inclusive, belonging
to the artists and the public. In a
highly marketed world, we are
reminders of why one exist and
what is truely valuable to humans.
welcome
Themes of spiritual transformation
create a frame for works of art.
MAPFest has gained a high
national, and international
profile, not because it has a huge
budget or is spectacularity in terms
of onamental extravagance, but its
fresh, bold, diverse art.
We inspire one another, support
each other and encourage humble
distinctions.
E-Plus Glogal continues to be out
major supporter and has matured
to E-Plus Global! Enjoy!
Tony Yap
Creative Director
Eight years have gone by with a

blink of an eye since the beginning
of the Festival in 2009. The
Festival, which draws crowds of all
walks of life from all over the
world, has now grown to become
one of the worlds largest
independent art and performance
festivals to be held at a UNESCO
Heritage site.
It is with great pride that we
continue to support the Festivals
longevity as more people look
forward to visit Melaka each year,
specifically to attend the Festival.
We are also constantly humbled
with the participation of the
amazingly talented artists who
travel from near and far to
showcase their works of art and
performances, as well as to share
their artistic wealth and knowledge
with the local community.
The Festival has garnered an
accolade of awards from critics and
fans from all over the world,
including: Asia-Pacific Stevie
Awards in Shanghai Gold Winner
for Marketing Campaign (Culture
& The Arts), Marketing Awards in
Singapore Gold Winner for Best
Use of Venue, Bronze Winner for
Best Arts and Culture (Event)
and Bronze Winner for Best
Ambiance (Event) as well as Sin

Chew Business Excellence Awards
in Malaysia Winner for Best Use
of CSR and Winner for CSR
Excellence, to name a few.
We would like to express our
sincere appreciation and deepest
gratitude to every contributing
artists, sponsors and supporters as
well as the organising and
management team for making the
Festival a great success throughout
Thank you and terima kasih.
Andrew Ching
Festival Producer
selamat datang welcome
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collaboration pod / festival artists
> Tony Yap & festival artists
Eulogy for the

Living
Eulogy for the Living is a large-scale
performance, a spectacular and soulful
finale to the festival, facilitated by Tony
Yap, performed by festival artists, with live
music, and projections.
Eulogy for the Living is a kind of
devotional work for making our way in
the world, an internal journey into the
memory of body and soul. Here artists and
audience transform and reconnect a
deeper part of ourselves, within the
fleeting transience of contemporary life.
We the living both preserve the past and
allow things to pass we eulogise
ourselves in each moment. Life goes on...
Sun 27 Nov, 8.30 pm, Site 1
St Pauls
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> Festival artists
Workshop Pod
- The Desert Within
"The desert grows, and woe to him
who conceals the desert within him..."
Friedrich Nietzsche "Dithyrambs of
Dionysus"
Melaka Workshop Pod will take its
explorative within the sites of Melaka
including at Pulau Besar. This workshop
will incorporate trance elements with Agus
Riyanto & Agung Gunawan. The Desert as
a metaphor for creative openness. The
Desert Within is a workshop for an
integration of the inner and the outer, an
exploration on psychophyicality.
This is a workshop of a desert of the
senses, of the spirit, of faith, and
destitute. If there is no creativity or
acceptance of ones limits, the relationship

can end. It is a relationship between
dancer and their environment to create
enchantment within a certain void - of
water, of fertility and life. With rain, the
desert blossoms overnight a fleeting
moment, a display of an illusive
enchantment.
This is part of a series of experimentations
in the reposition of the interior to the
exterior for movement aesthetics. In this
extended workshop we shall begin with
psychophysical exercises using different
levels of trance states to evoke movements
that comes from the interior and
particularly, psychological states of crisis.
Contact:
Takashi Takiguchi:
takashitakiguchi77@gmail.com
Workshop fee: Aud$150
Book at: www.trybooking.com/MPMK
15-21 November, All Sites + Pulau Besar
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cerita pendik 1 short works
Cerita Pendik 1
Short Works
Cerita Pendik brings dance, music
and performance works from
artists from around the world
together in a unique program of
short works over two nights at the
stunning St Paul's Church. Stay for
as many or as few as you like!
> Siti Alsyamsari Abriyanti &

dancers
Klotak Klotek
A dance work that tells about the
creation Betawi women's lives in
modern times. With advances in
technology and the times they are still
trying to maintain their culture with
movements from cokek, mask and
dance; Betawis, ondel-ondel.
All performances are 10 minutes
> Jonathan Rainin

The Dream
Cerita Pendik 1
Given in to a sleep, both of my parents

died in a dream. The arcetypal states of
rebirth are adding up to a dreamflux;
while they depart, in a gentle
avalanche, transforming into an
expectancy of a next life.
> Siti Alsyamsari Abriyanti &

dancers
> Jonathan Rainin
> Takashi Takiguchi & Ayako Fujii
> Ajak Kwai
> Rithaudin Abd Kadir
> Deden Tresnawan
& Dody Satya Ekagusthdiman
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> Kiea Kuan Nam

> Pak Koyek & Dita Amalia
> Lim Paik Yin
> Brendan Oconnor & Reuben
Lewis
> Agung Gunawan
Fri 25 Nov, Site 1 St Pauls,
8.30pm
> Takashi Takiguchi

& Ayako Fujii
Unamed
Our birth is an act of improvisation by
itself - no intention, force, definition or
organisation. With the song 'Unnamed'
composed by Ayako, the duet explores
the unnamed selves.
> Ajak Kwai

Of Cows, Women and War
Ajak conjures a vivid picture of her
Dinka heritage. Music is the vehicle for
her stories of extraordinary life

experiences as a refugee, exiled from
her home and her family. Her moving
tales of exile, hope, freedom, love,
and cows - beloved animals of the
Dinka.
> Rithaudin Abd Kadir

Tajau
This is a dance journey inspired by the
traditional use of Tajau or giant vase
by the Murut ethnic in Sabah. It has
its own soul and spirit which mingles
with the Rites of Passage of the ethnic
themselves.
> Deden Tresnawan & Dody

Satya Ekagusthdiman
Puseur
Still no sound that we need behind
the sound which is hidden.
> Kiea Kuan Nam

Sound of Himalaya
Close your eyes, may the hundred
years old Singing Bowls from
Himalaya leading you to feel the
peace of the night and the calmest
mind.
> Pak Koyek & Dita Amalia

Ngulandoro (Wandering)
An escape to silence to seek eternal truth
about love which covers our soul,
whether a sin or truth achieved? The
universe can't predict, only a full of holy
Faith heart which will get the blessing of
goddess
> Lim Paik Yin

What is Home?
What is Home to a person, the family
and the nation?
> Brendan Oconnor & Reuben

Lewis
Sisyphus Synthesis
Brendan and Reuben explores the myth
of the eternal return and the potential of
transformation in repetition in the myth
of Sisyphus.
> Agung Gunawan

You may say Im a dreamer
Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and
believe. Only fools believe that imposible
things can happen. All that today is real
was once only part of an impossible
dream.
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Cerita Pendik 2
Short Works
Cerita Pendik brings dance, music
and performance works from
artists from around the world
together in a unique program of
short works over two nights at the
stunning St Paul's Church. Stay for
as many or as few as you like!
All performances are 10 minutes
Cerita Pendik 2
> Chong Keat Aun & Yii Kah Hoe
> Gita Kinanthi and Rezky Praam
> Reuben Lewis & Max Dowling
> Lee Kien Fei
> Ida Ayu Gede Sasrani Widyastuti
> Zulfikar Rizki Ananda &
Herwin Budi Santoso
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> Georgia Snowball

> Vikram Mohan
> Kingkin Ayu and dancers
> Jehanne FIMA
> Chong Keat Aun & Yii Kah Hoe > Zulfikar Rizki Ananda &
Herwin Budi Santoso
Echos
Galuik Pinggan Janang
Keat Aun & Kah Hoe are a fomidable
duo abstracting traditional performance
elements of songs and stories from
ancient and near extinct art forms.
> Gita Kinanthi & Rezky Praam

Bubuhan Seribu Sungai
A life stories about the persistence of
banjar people who survive in a floating
market South Kalimantan.
Videographer: Ahmad Maulana
Sat 26 Nov, Site 1 St Pauls,

8.30pm
> Georgia Snowball

Instability
> Reuben Lewis & Max Dowling Based on real life - time events, themes
of catastrophic weather events, of fire,
Xaviers Present
drought and a view of the clouds from
A meditation on past and present,
navigating from moment to moment,
guiding our senses with accumulated
histories of space and time.
> Lee Kien Fei

Kretek Syarikat
Lets have a cigarette, I will tell you a
story.
> Ida Ayu Gede Sasrani

Widyastuti
Prapat Nunggal
> Mic Guillaumes
"Galuik" means a game bantering with

the "Pinggan" is a plate in use as a
media said the flavor is in the mind ,
"Janang" is self- dancer who pours the
contents his heart through Plate. A new
form of emotional soul with a
combination of ancient and
contemporary.
If the soul of the mangrove tree could

talk, it would grow stronger and last to
support a million people of the coastal
communities who would then protect it.
> Jehanne FIMA

Emotion in motion
When emotion meets motion, into
bones and muscles: it is the organicity
speaking, the authenticity of the body
bringing you to a journey of expansion
and contraction, of tension and relieve.
> Mic Guillaumes
Wandering Souls
"I am another" wrote Arthur Rimbaud.
I attended the birth of my body. I look,
beyond the aesthetic register. There is
much human consciousness in plural
force that constitute and animate the
body: The Dancing.
the air. Releasing a sense of ownership

over the planet.
> Vikram Mohan

Rebellion
Rebellion based on images of the Indian
persons who is opposed to the political
system.
> Kingkin Ayu and dancers

Kidung Prahara
Javanese women should be able to hide
her feelings, because javanese women
full of manners. But her angry can
destroy the world. Such as Draupadi
anger, which could lead to civil war.
indonesia
france/morocco
india
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mapping site-specific performances
mapping
Exciting, experimental and unexpected, the popular performances
Walk from site to site around St Paul's Hill and dance and music, solo and
group pieces.
This program involves all festival artists. This year there is a strong
emphasis on collaborations and improvisations in new and challenging
performance platforms.
Sunday 27 Novembers Collaborations pods are part of Mapping Program.
mapping program involves

all festival artists
Sat & Sun 26 & 27 Nov, 2-6pm, all Sites 1-6
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mapping site-specific performances
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lee kien fei / lisa dethridge
> Lee kien Fei

Malaysia
growing aDam
dance theatre
Growing aDam is a psycho-physical-vocal site
specific performance about searching the
movement of human birth..
Sat 26 Nov, Site 1, 2.30 pm
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> Lisa Dethridge Australia
Awaken!
performance
Humans get entranced by the fuzzy borderlines
between reality and fantasy. Dance is a way
of walking that line so audience and performer
may realize their own waking dreams.
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dhimas aryo / ida ayu / takashi takiguchi / rithaudin abdul kadir / in-fest
> Dhimas Aryo Vipha Ananda Indonesia
Animal Global
Warming
> Ida Ayu Widyastuti Indonesia
> Takashi Takiguchi & Ayako Fujii Japan
Prapat Nunggal
Unnamed
dance
dance & music performance
If the soul of the mangrove tree could talk, it

would grow stronger and last to support a
million people of the coastal communities
who would then protect it.
Our birth is an act of improvisation by itself - no

intention, force, definition or organisation. With
the song 'Unnamed' composed by Ayako, the duet
explores their unnamed selves.
installation
Reduction of animal habitat are signals to the
reduction of animals. With the light, animals
made the same language to protect themselves
from extinction.
This installation works using laser and animalshaped hanger with glass to interpret their
universal language. Hanger-shaped animals will
be hung with some glass as a medium for the
reflection of the laser are related to one another.
This work will be presented and in collaboration
with Gita Kinanthis interpetation in her
bodyworks that human would have huge
difficulty in penetrating the defense of this
unique unifying language. The animals achieving
this universal language will unite and protect the
habitat.
Sat 26 Nov, Site 5, 11.00 am
2-4 hours durational piece
> Kiki Ando Japan
contradiction
dance
> Rithaudin Abdul Kadir Malaysia
Humane Human
dance
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Life is full of contradiction. I'm going crazy.

That's why I 'm dance. Dance for the moment
that take our breath away.
Celebrating a human being as human without

any prejudices. Conceptualizing the oneness
itself within a human through movement and
visual.
The Desert
Rainbow
visual art
dianne dickson / the desert rainbow
> Dianne Dickson Australia
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Dianne Dickson's practice uses a variety of media

including digital collage, film, animation and
poetry to reflect her experience of growing up in a
remote area of Victoria. Diannes has been
combining historical film, video material and oral
histories with her photographic and text-based
work to interpret her experiences of the local
landscapes over the last fifty years. This work
explores and reinterprets the narratives, folklores
and mythologies of her home town, Rainbow, and
reflects both the real and imagined violence and
tragedies of this harsh and isolating landscape
with the characteristic humour that sometimes
accompanies such experiences.
Since completing her MFA at the Victorian College
of the Arts in 2014 Dianne has been continuing to
develop her practice in the town of Rainbow in
the Mallee region of northern Victoria, Australia
through exhibitions, collaborative processes and
though initiating an artists' residency programme
in Rainbow.
Fri-Sun 25-27 Nov,
Site A - 8 Heeren Street, 11.30 am-3.00pm
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brendan oconnor & tony yap
> Christos Linou
Naked Peel
part 4 (The metaphysical)
Naked Peel is a twelve-hour interactive cross-disciplinary
dance installation, which investigates cultural migration,
racism and sexual stereotyping. It explores
phenomenological states of trance and ritual to examine
notions of mediumship in a durational performance, to
trigger memories and dreams associated with the
conscious and sub-conscious body. The thematic content
reveals how racism and stereotyping have been
subconsciously impregnated in our subconscious and
created a fear of the other. It examines how the artist
can be hostage to the performance and hostage to the
viewers gaze. This can create a trance like state for the
viewer, where watching and staring at something over
long periods of time can lead to being intentionally blind
to other things around them.
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> Brendan OConnor & Tony Yap

Ireland/Malaysia/Australia
a gaze
psycho-kinetic dance
Troubles my sight: somewhere in

sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head
of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all
about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert
birds.
From a deep sense of touch with ours eyes

wide open, we gaze into a moment of
undeniable truth. The strength from the gaze
takes us into a abstraction of memories and
psychological inpulses, all from the deep
sense of contact and physical touch. a gaze
is a tangent from Brendan and Tonys ongoing morphing series of Dionysuss
Molecule.
The Second Coming,

William Butler Yeates
Sat 26 Nov,
The artist will embody himself within the natural

landscape as a notion of decomposition, metamorphosis
and rebirth. He will perform under a tree and peel over
one thousand oranges and the audience will be invited
to engage in, dialogical, sensory and tactical exchanges.
The oranges peelings are sewn into panels, and fastened
onto the body, and the image of the perfect body will
distort over time to reveal an ugly grotesque form that
questions assumptions of perfection and beauty. The
pulp and juice are separated and filled into a hanging
crate and suspended from a tree branch, which showers
orange juice onto the body. It acts as a dripping
metronome to the tempo of the performance and
becomes a cathartic washing tableau. The oranges are a
symbol for sustenance, purity, wealth, and knowledge
and most importantly, revealing that beneath the surface
of ones appearances, we are similar to the orange with
flesh, fluid and structure. With a thirst quenching
conscious and sub-conscious desire to be connected to
the world we occupy.
Site A - 8 Heeren Street, 12.30 pm

Sat 26 Nov, 8.30 pm, Site 2
St Pauls, Durational 12 hours
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christos linou
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forum jonathan rainin / workshop tony yap & brendan oconnor / tai chi steve kelly
workshops/
forum/classes
> workshop by Agung
Gunawan & Agus Riyanto
Listen / Smell
From listening comes depths of impulses
so from aromatic triggers. Agung and
Agus lead us to unfold the hidden and
latent possibilities for movements and
dance from listening and smelling.
Contact: Kar Nee,
knsuen@eplus.com.my
Fri 25 Nov, 10.00am, Site 3
> Forum /Artists talk

led by Jonathan Rainin
Success!! Why we
do what we do
One of the common comments oosted on
social media in response to new
performances often shouts success!
How does the artist measure or define
their sense of success in their work?
Artists have different aspirations and
reasos of why they dance / act / paint /
perform.
Jonathan Rainin will lead a forum and
discussion on levels of successes we, the
artists, share or differ. All welcomed.
Sun 27Nov, 10.00 am, Site B Wayfarer
> Yoga class /Steve Kelly
Tai Chi for

everyone
Steve Kelly will introduce fundamental
and effective Tai Chi for beginners.
Steve is a proficient instructor,
unassuming and lots to give. Introducing
simple exercises that begin to show the
depth of Tai Chi movement. The breath,
the stance and unified movement of the
whole body, connecting spirit body and
mind.
This outdoor class is a free event.
Fri-Sun 25-27 Nov, 7.00 am, Site 3
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Ayako Fujii is a Melbourne based multiinstrumentalist from Osaka, Japan.She

graduated Osaka College of Music in 1990
and began playing Japanese traditional
instruments (Taiko drums and Shinobue
Flute) in 1998. Since then, she has been
composing and arranging original music in
this genre. Ayako has also been playing
Sanshin (Okinawan Banjo) and singing
Okinawan songs since 2010. She has
participated in Taiko, Shinobue and Sanshin
workshops whilst on tour in Japan during
2011 15. She currently teaches Shinobue
in Melbourne.
Ayako is a member of A.YA (Japanese
Instrument & Taiko Duo), Australia Miyake
Kai (Miyake Taiko group), Melbo-Ren
(Awaodori dance group) and AyaTaka
(Okinawa Music Duo).
Lisa Dethridge has performed and

exhibited digital art in Europe, USA and
Australia. She performed, written and
produced media materials for producers
including Fox, Warner, Working Title, MTV,
CBS, NBC, CNN, Granada, SBS, Dempa
Japan, the Australian Film Commission, the
Film Finance Corporation, ABC Australia,
Artist Services, 3RR Radio and TV New
Zealand, for whom she produced TV
coverage of the 1994 Academy Awards in
Hollywood. She is the author of Writing
Your Screenplay and of stage play The War
Against Short Trousers. She is a member of
TYC, Melbourne and Artificial Organs.
Trained in classical ballet and theatre with
Kalman Solymossy in Melbourne; she has a
PhD in Media Ecology from New York
University.
Kelvin Atmadibrata (b.1988, Jakarta,

Indonesia) recruits superpowers awakened
by puberty and adolescent fantasy to
assemble formidable armies of outlaws.
Equipped by shnen characters and macho
ero-kawaii, his antiheroes contest the
masculine and erotica in Southeast Asia. He
works primarily with performances, often
accompanied by and translated into
drawings, mixed media collages and
objects compiled as installations.
Approached as multi disciplinary projects,
Kelvin recreates narratives and characters
based on RPGs (Role-playing video games)
theories.
www.kelvinatmadibrata.com
Lee Kien Fei a young and adventurous

performer artist from Malaysia, completed
his Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) in
Deakin University in 2014. Kien's
performing art journey began with breakdancing in high school age. In 2008, he
started to learn Traditional Chinese Dance
in Batu Dance Theatre and soon became
one of the principal dancers. In 2014, he
participated as a performer in The Light In
Winter Solstice Celebration, Melbourne,
choreographed by Tony Yap. In the same
year his collaboration with Amber Huang,
presents ABROAD in MAP Fest and
Mapping Melbourne. The journey led him
become a site-specific choreographer and
performer in various places and festival,
including MAP Delhi, MAPFest, Rimbun
Dahan and Findars Art Space.
Brendan OConnor, Ireland born,

received his accreditation as a professional
performer in The Netherlands, and has
since settled in Melbourne. He graduated
in dance at the College of Dance,
Monkstown, was excepted to the Laban
Centre London and the Fontys Dance
Academy in the Netherlands. A trip to
Ghana found his interest in strong and
psycho-physical direction in his consequent
connection his work in the slums of New
Delhi. Brendan works closely with Tony Yap
in ongoing laboratory investigating
internal choreography informed by Asian
Trance practices. The most recent work is
the acclaimed Dionysus Molecule
premiered in Melbourne in August 2015.
Christos Linous career, as performer,

choreographer and experimental filmmaker
has spanned thirty-years. He has toured
one-man shows in Amsterdam, Singapore,
Paris and Australia and has appeared and
choreographed for TV and feature films.
His experimental films and animations have
screened in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore,
Amsterdam and Toronto. His research
work Naked Peel was performed in
Melbourne and Amsterdam and published
on IMMATERIAL by the Marina Abramovic
Institute. In 2015 he presented his MFA
research at the World Dance Alliance in
Singapore. Christos has choreographed and
performed for IHOS Opera and he is the
co-director of a cross-disciplinary artist run
initiative Intertextual Bodies.
christoslinou.wordpress.com
Georgia Snowball is a multidisciplinary

performance artist; choreography, site
specific performance, Butoh and Body
Weather training techniques and teaching.
Her solo and collaborative projects both
nationally and internationally spends over a
decade. Her work evolves from the
relationship of human body to the morethan-human world, creating small and
large scale site responsive performance
works. Georgia's techniques gather in
audience participation and combine live
responses to perform. Her current
ecological performance practices aims to
create awareness and response to global
warming issues through performance.
Georgia is a PhD candidate at Federation
University Ballarat, on Ecological Practice:
Performance Making in the Age of the
Anthropocene.
Kingkin Ayu, born in Klaten, Central

Java, Indonesia knew traditional dance
since childhood. Her parents are traditional
dancers. She studied dance in Indonesia
Institut of Art, Surakarta in traditional and
contemporary dance. Her dance work
entitled PRAHARA, TETEG, and BANJARAN
SINTA. Her work often has womens stories.
She also creates childrens dances for her
dance studio, including DOLANAN
SONTOLOYO, TANI UTUN, MBOK
TENGGOK. Kigkin teaches dance in
elementary and senior high schools as part
of their extracurriculum. She is also a
cultural an ambassador for the arts of the
city of Klaten.
Maxwell Dowling is a saxophonist and

electronic musician based in Melbourne. As
a performer, composer and improviser, he
has worked across a wide array of musical
idioms. This includes being an emerging
force as a collaborator with contemporary
dancers as a composer, performer and
curator.
Mic Guillaumes, from his 66 years of his

life and 61 years of dance, struggles to
define his dance in a few words. "I will say
one thing, I am a dancer. It is fundamental
to me. It is what gives me vigor. I enjoy life
and all relationships in the world of dance.
I speak and write, I shout, through dance.
My emotions of everyday life or are led by
my love for dance. My brain and my heart
are irrigated through dance. I walk through
dance. I think walking is the most beautiful
dance in its complexity.
Mic Guillaumes was born in Saigon in the
late 1940s His whole family was in Asia at
the time. He explains as having "a form of
affiliation with Asia." When he arrived in
France at age of 5, he started dancing
because "I was a bad student."
https://www.linkedin.com/in/micguillaumes
Reuben Lewis is a trumpeter, composer,

improviser and a driving new force in the
Australian Jazz and Experimental music
community. He has collaborated with many
local and international artists, performing
often at known venues around Australia,
Asia and Europe. Since basing himself in
Melbourne, his unrelenting and diverse
musical activity has earned him recognition
within the local and greater global
community.
He has released two albums comprising of
his original compositions, Samadhi (2009),
and Fractured Spring (2011) as well as
produced many others such as Dangerous
Flowers (2015) and Breath Interrupted
(2016) with The Inflorescence Ensemble.
www.reubenlewis.com
Ajak Kwais music is inspiring and soulful,

infused with funky afro-beats representing
the depth and richness of her South
Sudanese roots. Her distinctive voice has
mesmerised audiences nationally and
internationally. Her third CD Of Cows,
Women and War brings a rare and very
personal glimpse into the vanishing world
of the nomad Dinka of South Sudan,
almost destroyed by civil war. She has
performed at WOMADelaide, the Port Fairy
Festival, Alice Springs' Eye of the Storm
Writers' Festival, Melbourne International
Arts Festival and The Age Music Awards.
Ajak was awarded the African-Australia
Community Female Singer of the Year and
advocates for refugees and women's
rights. http://www.ajakkwai.com
Gita Kinanthi Purnama Asri,

Programe master of art in Indonesian
Institute of The Arts Yogyakarta, she live in
Lombok. Gita is choreographer,dancer and
dance teacher in STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin
South Kalimantan. Since 2013 founded
Excelsior Dance Project which concern with
creativity and dance project in Lombok and
continued to South Kalimantan. Is year
(2016), she just get a grant of dance works
supported by Kelola Foundation, with her
danceworks: Akad Di Atas Jukung a
story of traditional trade in Floating
MarketSouth Kalimantan.
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Rezky Pratama born in Lampeong

Central Kalimantan got his Bachelor from
Education of Dance Programe in STKIP
PGRI Banjarmasin - South Kalimantan.
Since 2015 joined Excelsior Dance Project
Banua, and won a contemporary dance
competition in Lanjong Art Festival 2015.
Expert in traditional dance of Kalimantan.
Today, he active as a choreographer, dancer
and dance teacher in high school.
Ahmad Maulana,
and
Ahmad Maulana born Kalimantan,

graduated from Faculty of art drama music
and dance in Lambung Mangkurat
University. Since 2014 founded LA
Photography. Today he active as
Videographer/photographer/ film maker
who concern to exploring a culture of
Banjar. He won some local film festivals in
South Kalimantan. His new film Kontras
won award from Borneo film Festival
jarmasin.
Jonathan Rainin born in Russia, was

deriving inspiration from natural
movement, martial arts, parkour, dance. He
travelled to China, where founded parkour
and movement company in Shanghai, then
came to Melbourne and currently is
working in VCA on the PhD research in his
discipline of Somartics: Embodiment of the
Real. He has been practicing and
researching movement disciplines for10
years. Departing from primal locomotion,
to oriental martial arts and parkour, moving
on to yoga, taijiquan, somatic methods,
qigong and dance improvisation, travelling
and learning from masters in China, India,
Russia and, finally, in Australia.
www.facebook.com/johnatan.rainin
Lim Paik Yin works in performance art,

photography and spoken words. With a
B.A in Multimedia, her art education is
supplemented through workshops
organized by galleries, collectives and
cultural institutions with bases in Malaysia.
Lims practice in theater transitioned to the
visual arts through workshops organized by
womens rights groups and debut in the
visual arts project, Scripted Bodies Art
Exhibition in 2005. This group show use
the human body as a visual motif to
explore the various ideologies and political
forces that shape attitudes towards the
human bodies. Her works are influenced by
her activism in gender equality and
permaculture, as well as her dance practice
in contact improvisation.
By using the presence of oneself and
transforming everyday space through
performance, ...
Tony Yap, born in Malaysia, is an

accomplished dancer, director,
choreographer and visual artist. Tony was
one of the principle performers with IRAA
Theatre (1989-1996). He has made a
commitment to the exploration and
creation of an individual dance theatre
language that is informed by psychophysical research, Asian shamanistic trance
dance, Butoh, Vocal extentions. Tony has
received numerous nominations and
awards including The Decay of the Angel
which won him a Green Room Award for
Best Male Dancer. He has been a leading
figure in inter-cultural discourse and
received Asialink residential grants to work
in Indonesia in 2005, and 2008 and a
Dance fellowship from the Australia
Council for the Arts. Tony is the founding
Creative Director of MAP Fest.
www.tonyyapdance.com
Vikram Mohan, New Delhi born, started

his Contemporary Dance education in
National Ballet Academy trust of India
and worked in Lucia Marthas Institute for
performing art in Amsterdam. In 2006, he
created his dance company, Voxpop
Dancers India and in 2012 he founded
India International Aerial Club in New
Delhi. He worked with National School of
Drama, National School Of Drama Gangtok
Sikkim, Film Television Institute Pune, MP
School of Drama Bhopal, IP University and
many theatre groups. In 2007 he was
nominated for Best Choreographer in
Mahindra and Mahindra Excellence Theatre
Awards. Vikrams After Death
nominated in META awards 2016 in 8
categories. His short dance film Stillness
was in top 40 in screen dance festival,
Stockholm and sreened in Tanzrauschen
Dance on Screen Festival Wuppertal.
TakashiTakiguchi, Japan born, is a

creative producer and an event organiser.
He is also a qualified social worker and
worked with diverse group of socially
disadvantaged people for past decade.
Through grass root community
development activities with people of
homeless, refugees and asylum seekers, he
re-discovered the power of arts as
inevitable and fundamental for human
consciousness. This led him to write his
grandmothers war experience and created
'To Live'. He continuously trains with Tony
Yap and Yumi Umiumare since 2012. He
performed at Light in Winter, Arts Island
Festival, Indonesia, MAP Fest, MAP
Melbourne Australia. He co-/produces and
organises events including for Japanese
Butoh masters, Seisaku, Yuri Nagaoka and
Katura Kan, Pelem Arts Festival, MAP Delih
and MAP Fest.
Agus Riyanto In 2007 Agus revived the

traditional art of Bull-trance (Bantengan)
that had been extinct in the city of Batu,
East Java. He is founding director of the
supreme Bantengan Trance Carnival,
Nuswantara Joyo in collaboration with the
Arts Island Festival 2008-2014. He achived
Awards for bull-trances and bull whips in
Batu since 1985. Mas Agus is a sharman
and a proficient painter. Agus is highly
respected in East Java for his deep
understanding and work in trance
performances and have lately incorporate
it in contemporary experimentations with
great sussecc working with Agung
Gunawanand Tony Yap in Melaka and
Melbourne in 8 Men with performaers
from varied international backgrounds.
Jehanne FIMAs background is in

physical theater and martial arts (tai chi and
kungfu) which she started practicing in her
home of France before moving to China
where she lived for 9 years. She joined in
Beijing, the American theater Company,
Beijing Playhouse, as an actress, drama
teacher and artistic director for theater kids
camps. She incorporates dance, yoga and
meditation practices into her teaching. She
says that the beauty of life is to BE in
millions of different ways and ephemeral
arts like theater and dance give us tools to
express these states. She belongs to the
Dance Contact Improvisation (CI) in Beijing,
where she performed with some modern
dancers. She is certified as a yoga teacher
and meditative dance facilitator.
Herwin Budi Santoso familiarly called

Erwin, born in Sako two, Indonesia 17 June
1995, the first child of three sisters. He is a
talented young musician provincial and
Indonesia. None of his family who loves
music but he insisted with his ability and
his talent. Erwin studied violin since the age
of 18, just three years to learn to play the
violin he was able to play orchestra
together condactor Prof.Seung Yong Choi
(KOREA) and Ary Sutedja (pianist
Indonesia). Erwin has also been awarded as
the best theater musician in 2016. At the
MAP Fest. 2016 Herwin Budi Santoso will
be collaborating with choreographer with
works Rizki Zulfikar blend of traditional and
contemporary modren.
Kiea Kuan Nam Malaysian, age 43, is a

Butoh & contemporary dancer,
choreographer and yoga practitioner.
Active in dance circles in Malaysia for about
23 years, also loving floral art and theatrical
costume design. He personally won the
award for The Best Choreographer and The
Best Group Performance in Hong Kong
Youth Dance Festival in 2006. Also, he won
the award for The Best Joyful Dance in the
same event which happened in Indonesia
(2007) and Beijing (2009). Leading Role in
The Curse of the Forbidden City, Peony
Dream and Catan Kulit was Won The
Best Costume Design, Styling and Make up
Award and The Best Group Performance,
beside that he was nominated for The Best
Feature Performer in Malaysia Cameronians
Arts Award.
Zaffar Chapri comes from Kashmir and

is also well loved local trader in the old
sector of Melaka old town. He comes from
a family of art appreciaters and together
they sing traditional songs and play
traditional instruments. Zaffar is a lover of
sufi philosophy and poetics including music
and song. He wants to bring to awarwness
to the world of the plight of the people of
Kashmir wanting peace and end to the
violence they are experiencing. Through art
and music, Zaffar and members of his
family will present a rendition for this
dedication to his people as a hope for
peace.
Zulfikar Rizki Ananda also known as

Rizky, is a young choreographer of West
Sumatra. He was born in Solok, in West
Sumatra Province of the Republic of
Indonesia, the first child of three Brother is
a graduate of the Vocational High School
of Art in West Sumatra and is now a active
student at the Art Institute of Indonesia
Padang Panjang West Sumatra Province
with the Department of Dance.
Siti Alsyamsari Abriyanti, born in

Jakarta teaches Art and Culture in SMAN 1
Cileungsi. She is working on several works
of the Betawi dance at the National Youth
Jamboree Purna Prakarya Muda Indonesia
Jakarta contingent. Jakarta State University
Alumni (UNJ) also provide a workshop on
dance creations betawi with the aim of
preserving the cultural traditions of
Indonesia. One of them in the Court of
Fatahilah Kota Tua Museum, Jakarta
Convention Center for the Ministry of
Youth and Sport. MAP 2014 was also
followed as a team in doing Hijab Batik
Dance Work. Currently she is still active as
head of the school in kindergarten Griya
Sari and choreographer at Dance Home
Ullualla. She choreographed the
Government Program Book Abang None
Jakarta (2015) and the Community
Empowerment Base of Culture (2015).
Diva Islami Usmanah, born in Jakarta ,

May 15, 1999 is inher final year student at
SMAN 1 Cileungsi. She began dancing
since the age of 5. She also holds an
assistant choreographer at Dance Home
Ullualla , Bogor - Indonesia . By attaching a
traditional dance group leader at school ,
she hopes to enrich and share their
knowledge with anyone who wants to can
dance. She also became a dancer opener
envoy Ministry of Youth and Sports in
Gebyar Culture-Based Community
Empowerment (GPMB) at the Jakarta
Convention Center, 2015.
Nazala Insani Sadida Muhammadiyah

junior high school students have debuted
the dance since the age of 6 years .
Incorporated in the main dance at Dance
Home Ullualla since 2014 , Lala has
followed several dance performances
several venues including the Museum
Fatahilah neighborhood , Old Town Jakarta . Became the performers in the
Abang None Cilik DKI Jakarta ( 2015) , and
a dancer opener at City Hall attended by
the Governor of DKI Jakarta (2015) .
Tri Handayani Annisa Putri, born in

Bogor in 1992 has a biologist degree from
Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University.
She is a young traveler who dedicate
herself to explore the culture of Indonesia .
Dieng Culture Festival so one remarkable
destinations to examine the child rate
gimbal which is one of the cultural
traditions of Indonesia still survive to this
day. Data from visits to some areas,
stimulation for choreographers to explore
motion in the manufacture of the dance
work. She also tought as a teacher of
mathematics at SMAN 1 Cileungsi. She also
collaborates with street photographers.
Dita Amalia Born in Surabaya, Dita

started dancing at the age of 10 years and
joined the Wade JE community in 2014 and
is involved in the project Tobong Arts
Performance which is working in
collaboration with artists Ketoprak Tobong
Suryo Budoyo. Shown in Tobong Arts
Festival-2015), Pentas Ndadari Moon
(2015), and the body of Tropical Forests
program (2015).
Community Ward JE was initiated by young
people in Kediri, active in the space of art,
culture, and literacy. She performed with
Suryo Budoyo and her work is inspired by
the struggle of the Tobong atrists in Kediri
in maintaining the tradition of art
Ketoprak. Ketoprak consistently show their
excellence from village to village.
Pak Koyek He is a Tobong Toneel artist.

With his community called Suryo Budoyo
he always consistently presenter place to
place show from kampung to kampung.
He is performance in Arts Island Festival
2013-2014. In 2015 with bangsal JE
organizer Festival Tobong.
Began 2015 both, Pak Koyek together with
Dita Amalia, were involved in a
collaboration called Tobong Arts
Performance. It is a combination of
tradisional value in Tobong Toneel with
contemporary style from cross disciplinary
arts and formed through reguler show and
annual festival.
Nathaniel Finley is a vagabond poet,

novelist, musician, performer, intellectual,
teacher and world-class bum. Originally
from the U.S.A., he has spent almost half
of his life outside of his home country and
is currently contemplating an extended
tour of Central America. Among his many
interests are shamanism, the history of
philosophy and religion and the evolution
of individualism. His music employs spoken
word, voice, guitar and violin in a nontraditional and dissonant manner designed
to inspire a dream-like or trance-like state.
Among his ongoing writing projects is a
three-part cycle of novels based on the
Grecian myth of Daedalus and King Minos.
YI Kah Hoe, winner of Malaysian

Philharmonic Orchestra Forum for
Malaysian Composers 2 and 3rd Prize in
the International Composition for Chinese
Orchestra by Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
Finalist of International Composers
Competition Citt di Udine (Italy). His
interests in ethnic and traditional music
have prompted him to embark on an
ongoing research project to collect folk
music and ethno musical materials of the
regions. Yii blends western and nonwestern aesthetics, concepts and traditions.
Yiis compositions have been performed
wifely internationally. He is the festival
director of the KL Contemporary Music
Festival (Malaysia, 2009) and a senior
lecturer at SEGi College Subang Jaya.
Chong Keat Aun is a cross cultural

performing artist, radio programmer,
deejay, film critic, community art project
founder, collaborated on series of art
projects nationally and internationally. He
won the Seri Angkasa National Award,
Best Male Radio DJ and became the first
Chinese broadcaster in the Malaysian.
Chong was a film jury for the 29th
International Farj Film Festival in Iran, and
International Chinese Documentary Festival
2012 in Hong Kong, ASEAN-China Folk
Music Festival 2014. Yearly, he performs in
MAP Festival and KL Experimental Film
Festival. Chong was nominated for Ten
Outstanding Young Malaysia Awards
2011 in cultural achievement category.
Tim Crafti Tim Crafti's began his

danceform from classical ballet (Australian
Ballet School, 2008) and extended
improvisational style to find new pathways
of expression. A recent research focus is a 1
to 1 performance, exploring empathetic
potentiality between himself and one
spectator. His performances include solo
and ensemble work in Australia, Israel, and
Germany. He performed in Melaka Arts and
Performance Festival (Malaysia, 2013) and
The Arts Island Festival (Indonesia, 2014).
Tamsin Chaning has lived and worked

in New York, Dublin, London, Mumbai,
Auroville, and Melbourne. She studied
classical ballet as a child before joining
contemporary dance company Graffiti
Dance Theatre. She has an Honours degree
in Cultural Studies. While living in the
UNESCO listed City of the Future
Auroville (near Pondicherry), she studied
the Vedas, worked as a counsellor at a
transgender centre, and trained in
contemporary dance, contact
improvisation, and capoeira. She trains TYC
since 2011. She has worked as a writer,
editor, lecturer, producer, botanical
gardener, and is currently completing
training as a transpersonal psychotherapist,
with deep interest in the therapeutic value
of trance states and embodied
transpersonal experience.
Agung Gunawan born in Central Java,

gratuated from the High School of Arts in
Yogyakarta, he continued his studies of
Yogyakartanese classical dance in Surya
Kencana and at the Kraton (Palace) where
he continues to perform. He studied other
styles of traditional dance such as
Sumatranese, Betawian and Kalimantan
with Bagong Kusudiharjo and
contemporary dance with Miroto. He has
toured with them in Holland, Belgium,
Germany, Africa and Indonesia. With the
Padepokan Seni Bagong Kusudiharjo, he
has performed in Vermont, Boston and
Washington DC in the USA. He is active in
Indonesia with a contemporary music
group led by the composer Vincent
McDermott. Agung has worked as an
assistant choreographer on Opera Jawa, a
movie directed by Garin Nugroho.
Rithaudin Abdul Kadir a dancer of 19

years, believes that dance is a universal
language which carries a message without
any border. Philosophically holds the term
Dance is culture, culture is dance coined
by Alan Merriam, he stands that dance is
the suitable tool for understanding and
giving respect to any culture. Growing up
traditionally as a Suluk (Tausug) ethnic from
Sabah, he discovered his passion and love
for dance after migrating to Kuala Lumpur
in 1997. His works had always
implemented the elements and form of the
cultural and traditional richness of his
Sabahan people which blends with the
contemporary. A University of Malaya
dance graduate, his works had already
been featured in the local and international
stage. Site-specificity has been his new
forte and his creatively is free yet
traditionally intact.
Dhimas Aryo Vipha Ananda

graduated from Indonesia Institute of the
Art Yogyakarta. He video work can be
fiund in : Fowler Museum at UCLA,
multimedia collection, The Spirit of Barong
Bali, Brunei Darussalam Joy Book of
Celebration, Royal Brunei Airlines New
Heritage Inspired Uniforms, Shazanas
Production House, Brunei. He photograph
in Candid Syndrome photography
workshop Photocamp VI at Siem Riep
Cambodia, and Candid Syndrome
photography workshop Asah Mata III a
Landscape of Emotions with Manny
Librodo at Brunei Darussalam.In 2016 he
was Artist in Residence TROPICAL LAB
10th, Lassalle Art College, Singapore.

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selamat datang / from our patron

MAP has developed a philosophical

Eight years have gone by with a

Ambiance (Event) as well as Sin

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selamat datang welcome

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collaboration pod / festival artists

> Tony Yap & festival artists

Eulogy for the

> Festival artists

acceptance of ones limits, the relationship

15-21 November, All Sites + Pulau Besar

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cerita pendik 1 short works

> Siti Alsyamsari Abriyanti &

All performances are 10 minutes

> Jonathan Rainin

Given in to a sleep, both of my parents

> Siti Alsyamsari Abriyanti &

> Kiea Kuan Nam

> Takashi Takiguchi

> Ajak Kwai

her stories of extraordinary life

> Rithaudin Abd Kadir

> Deden Tresnawan & Dody

> Kiea Kuan Nam

> Pak Koyek & Dita Amalia

> Lim Paik Yin

> Brendan Oconnor & Reuben

> Agung Gunawan

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cerita pendik 1 short works

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cerita pendik 2 short works

> Georgia Snowball

> Gita Kinanthi & Rezky Praam

Sat 26 Nov, Site 1 St Pauls,

> Georgia Snowball

> Lee Kien Fei

> Ida Ayu Gede Sasrani

> Mic Guillaumes

"Galuik" means a game bantering with

If the soul of the mangrove tree could

> Jehanne FIMA

> Mic Guillaumes

the air. Releasing a sense of ownership

> Vikram Mohan

> Kingkin Ayu and dancers

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cerita pendik 2 short works

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mapping site-specific performances

mapping program involves

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mapping site-specific performances

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lee kien fei / lisa dethridge

> Lee kien Fei

> Lisa Dethridge Australia

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