An Essay, an Opera…a Mystery
The performance of Opera Tan Malaka at Graha Bhakti Budaya gave birth to something new. But something that had been born at Salihara was also lost.
May 4, 2011
THE late painter Roesli once said, in about 1972, that he never fixes the strokes of his hands: “If I’m not satisfied, I throw it (the painting) away. I take a new canvas, to paint a new one.” Because for him, “The brushstrokes must be original. And that must be it.”
In the performing arts, which move in time and space, the painting principle of Roesli, does not apply. The artists rehearse; the director, composer, choreographer try thi
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