Research Catalog

Title

[Javanese dance in the studio] [videorecording].

Publication

1990.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Burton, Deena
• Mardawa, Rama Sasminta.

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Javanese court dances recorded in class or rehearsal, in practice clothes. Most of the footage was recorded in the pendopo or open-air pavilion of Pujokusuman in Yogyakarta, home of a dance academy headed by Rama Sasminta Mardawa, with whom Deena Burton studied in 1989-1990. Rama Sas, as he was called, is seen briefly on camera on Disc 1. The primary dance depicted is the beksan or combat dance, which often portrayed two women warriors. Burton was particularly interested in studying this form. She is seen dancing in the Beksan rehearsal and in the final segment of dance classes at Pujokusuman.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Subject

• Court dancing > Indonesia > Java
• Dance > Indonesia > Java
• Dance > Study and teaching > Indonesia > Java

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Event (note)

• Dance classes recorded at Pujokusuman, Yogyakarta, Java, on May 31, 1990 and other dates?
• Beksan rehearsal recorded at the Institut Kesenian Indonesia (ISI), Yogyakarta, Java, on June 7, 1990.

Funding (note)

• Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Skip La Plante.

Biography (note)

• Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Contents

Disc 1: Dance class at Pujokusuman (ca. 50 min) -- Beksan rehearsal at the ISI (ca. 5 min.) / danced by Deena Burton and an Indonesian woman -- Disc 2: Continuation of beksan rehearsal at the ISI (ca. 29 min.) -- Dance classes at Pujokusuman (ca. 31 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4328

OCLC

269420194

Title

[Javanese dance in the studio] [videorecording].

Imprint

1990.

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Event

Dance classes recorded at Pujokusuman, Yogyakarta, Java, on May 31, 1990 and other dates?

Beksan rehearsal recorded at the Institut Kesenian Indonesia (ISI), Yogyakarta, Java, on June 7, 1990.

Funding

Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography

Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.

Source

Gift; Skip La Plante.

Local Subject

Combat dances.

Added Author

Burton, Deena, dancer.

Mardawa, Rama Sasminta.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4328