Research Catalog

Title

[Javanese dance performance at Pujokusuman] [videorecording].

Publication

[1990?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Mardawa, Rama Sasminta.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (68 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

The dance academy at Pujokusuman, an aristocratic house in Yogyakarta, regularly presents performances of Javanese court dances for tourists. Performers include the most accomplished students of Rama Sasminta Mardawa, with whom Deena Burton studied in 1989-1990. The first piece is a combat dance performed by two women, possibly portraying warrior queens. Wayang wong or dance drama is represented by the second piece, The death of Subali. The story depicts the contention of the monkey kings Sugriwa and Subali over the heavenly nymph Tara. The white monkey Senggana or Hanuman enlists the aid of Rama and Lesmana, the heroes of the Indian epic the Ramayana, and they assist Sugriwa in defeating Subali.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Subjects

• Dance
• Video
• Wayang wong (Dance drama)
• Dance > Indonesia > Java
• Court dancing > Indonesia > Java
• Combat dances

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Event (note)

• Recorded at Pujokusuman, Yogyakarta, Java, possibly in 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

Dance duet (ca. 16 min.) / danced by two women, identified on cassette label as Judy and Yanti -- The death of Subali (ca. 52 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4335

OCLC

275215900

Title

[Javanese dance performance at Pujokusuman] [videorecording].

Imprint

[1990?]

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Event

Recorded at Pujokusuman, Yogyakarta, Java, possibly in 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

Mardawa, Rama Sasminta.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4335