UNFOLDING
KABA Festival |August 2017 – Padang, Pekanbaru, Balik Papan
"Unfolding" Gerard Mosterd Tampil di Kaba Festival 4
klik positif.com | 24 July 2017
Gerrad Mosterd saat memberikan workshop di Yogyakarta beberapa waktu lalu (ist)
“Gerard seorang koreografer berdarah Indonesia-Belanda lulusan Royal Conservatory”
Oleh Ramadhani pada Monday, 24 July 2017 jam 09:04:32 WIB
PADANG, KLIKPOSITIF-KABA Festival kembali digelar untuk tahun yang keempat. Pada penyelenggaraan tahun ini KABA akan menampilkan sejumlah pertunjukkan dari luar negeri. Salah satu penampilnya adalah Gerard Mosterd dari Belanda.
Gerard seorang koreografer berdarah Indonesia-Belanda. Ia lulusan dari Royal Conservatory. Sebuah tempat lahirnya seniman-seniman yang sudah punya nama tenar seperti Lindsay Kemp dan Christopher Bruce.
Pada Kaba Festival 4 ini, Gerard akan mempertunjukan karya yang berjudul Unfolding. Karya ini juga merupakan hasil dari kolaborasi dengan seniman-seniman berbagai negara, seperti Paul Goodman dari Kanada (musik), Christian Chierego dari Chile(video), dan Mohd Shafiq Bin MD Yussof.
Sebagaimana yang diterangkannya, karya ini merupakan sebuah audio-visual abstrak menegangkan tentang pencarian ingatan tubuh Asia-Eropa. Karya ini akan terbagi dalam 3 bagian, yang setiap bagiannya akan ditampilkan pada setiap malam pertunjukan Kaba Festival 4 ini.
“Jadi, Gerard Monsterd ini akan tampil pada 3 malam berturut-turut dari empat malam Kaba Festival 4 ini, yakni malam pertama, kedua, dan ketiga,” kata Direktur Festival Angga Djamar di Padang.
Perpaduan antara orisinalitas pertunjukan dengan animasi, suara, video, maupun tubuh menjadi perhatian utamanya. Sejauh ini, Mosterd memang telah menciptakan 40 karya independen yang orisinil dan mengembangkan tema-tema lintas budaya terutama terkait Asia dan Eropa. Hubungan dan isu antara Asia dengan Eropa atau antara Timur dengan Barat memang telah menjadi fokus utama Monsterd dalam menciptakan karya-karyanya.
KABA Festival 4 akan berlangsung mulai tanggal 03, 04, dan 05 Agustus 2017 di Teater Utama Taman Budaya Sumatra Barat.
Gerard Mosterd
lanjongartfoundation.org | Seniman
Born in 1964 from Dutch-Indonesian parents in Amersfoort, The Netherlands he frequently improvised as an eight year old in slow speed “serimpi” like movement rituals before receiving admittance to the dance academy of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After finishing a nine year study in classical ballet, folk dance, contemporary dance and music he started an eleven year carreer as a dancer with international companies such as London Festival Ballet, Basel Ballet, Concordanse Paris, Royal Ballet of Flanders and Hwa Kang Dance in Taipei.
Was assistant artistic director of Ulmer Ballet in Germany where Tai Chi was part of the daily training and has guest taught at several institutions in Europe and Asia. Worked as a dancer with original choreographers such as Mats Ek, Christopher Bruce, Michael Clark, Siobhan Davies and Lindsay Kemp. He started his own dance production in 1996 focusing upon the situation of eurasians in the Netherlands. Altough fascinated by Indonesian dances he strives for not copying these highly respected traditional art forms by melting elements of them into an own contemporary dance theatre vocabulary while honouring at the same time the typical Indonesian quality of improvisation.
He brought modern dance to the annual Pasar Malam Besar in The Hague in 1999 where his productions were performed each season for six years. In 2002 he created the first modern dance duet on Kroncong music ever and keeps up adding innovative elements in his works such as the use of electronic gamelan. His productions always evolve around unusual concepts and are inspired by autobiographical elements as well as literature and contemporary developments. Annually his productions tour The Netherlands. “Luminescent Twilight” (2002), “Please Let Me See Your Face” (2003), “Stretching Time” (2004) and “Kebon” (2004) were seen in notable venues in Indonesia. March 2005 “Angin” was performed several times in Singapore commissioned by The Arts House and this same year his group piece, “Game” was executed by students of Lasalle SIA in Singapore. Autumn 2005, two of his productions, the solo performance “Angin” and most recent group piece “Kamu/Jij” toured Kuala Lumpur, Java and Bali. The frequency and scale of these SE Asian tours in combination with series of workshops are pioneering and historically of unique value.
Gerard writes as a freelance journalist on Dutch-Indonesian performing arts for Moesson magazine, distributed in The Netherlands, Canada, Australia and the US. He is a selected full member of the International Council for the Dance of UNESCO.
