Playing with a Sarong and Sundanese Poetry

Artists from Indonesia used various actions to capture the attention of audiences in Berlin. Sundanese language was not an obstacle when it appeared as a performance.

July 20, 2011

THE figure totally enveloped in soft white cloth slowly but surely began to make small movements which then grew larger, more frequent, and faster. Amazing images were created by the movements within the white cloth and their visual forms. The people watching were stunned and often laughed.

Then the figure, Sosiawan Leak, an actor and poet from Surakarta, burst from behind the cloth. He moved even further, more broadly, with strange sounds. Th

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