Chaotic Bodies, Lonely Bodies

The 10th Indonesian Dance Festival took place at Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, two weeks ago. Foreign dancers presented a rather unusual performance.

June 30, 2010

SLAP, slap!” They slapped each other’s cheeks. A moment later, they exchanged serious blows to the gut. It was a very unorthodox display of dance indeed. Before that, Yuya Tsukahara, Itaru Kato, Yu Kanai, and Keigo Mikajidi, the four men from Osaka, Japan, who call themselves Contact Gonzo, stepped calmly onto the stage of Luwes Theater in the Jakarta Arts Institute.

They wore T-shirts and sweatpants, as if they had just returned from joggin

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