WHERE was Orpheus for the show’s one-hour duration? He appeared at the beginning. Someone was then heard reciting the poem: “Five minutes before the train departed, the woman said to him, ‘Orpheus, I will not return.’”

At the Salihara Theater in Jakarta, only five individuals performed in Melati Suryodarmo’s choreography, which features predominantly slow gestures with bodies positioned close to the floor. The