Eko Supriyanto’s “IBUIBU BELU”: Uncomfortable Questions
about 51 months ago (03/12/2020)
Eko Supriyanto’s "IBUIBU BELU": Uncomfortable Questions | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Hideto Maezawa March 12, 2020 By Sharmilla Ganesan (754 words, 4-minute read) As the five women onstage came silently together in a halt, spot lit and wrapped once more in the tenun textile they had first appeared in, there was an initial hush. Ironically, for all the dynamism of the movements and formations we had just witnessed, it was their voices that somehow continued to echo in the mind – their unvarnished, hypnotic singing of the traditional songs of the likurai dance, which originates from the island of Timor. Perhaps this was because, in a performance that kept complicating the notion of ownership over storytelling, their voices alone felt truly their own.