Research Catalog

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java] [videorecording].

Publication

1989 and 1990?

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Djaikem.
• Burton, Deena.
• Institut Kesenian Jakarta.

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (124 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In 1989-1990 a Fulbright Scholarship enabled Deena Burton to take copies of Tassilo Adam's ethnographic dance films, which she had edited, back to Indonesia. She presented screenings for Indonesian artists and scholars, eliciting their comments and background information. These screenings were recorded on 8mm videocassette. Adam's films are not visible on the screen, and there is no dance content. The language spoken is usually Bahasa Indonesia, but the participants may speak Javanese among themselves. In the first screening, the viewers are members of the Institut Kesenian Jakarta (IKJ) or Jakarta Institute of the Arts. The second screening is for Bu Bei Mardusari [Bu is an honorific], also known as Djaikem during her performing career. A singer as well as a dancer, she was considered a major exponent of langendriya, a form of dance-opera. The third screening is for Pak Roesman [Pak is an honorific], the leading dancer in the wayang wong or dance drama troupe at Sriwedari Park, a former royal resort turned public amusement park. It presented nightly performances of wayang wong.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Subject

• Adam, Tassilo
• Dance > Indonesia

Genre/Form

Video.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Event (note)

• Screening for Institut Kesenian Jakarta recorded at the Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia (MMI) festival, location not identified, on Oct. 29, 1989.
• Screening for Bu Bei Mardusari probably recorded in Surakarta, also called Solo, in 1990.
• Screening for Pak Roesman probably recorded at Sriwedari Park, Surakarta, also called Solo, 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

Disc 1: Screening for the Institut Kesenian Jakarta (ca. 17 min.) -- Screening for Bu Bei Mardusari (ca. 46 min.) -- Disc 2: Continuation of screening for Bu Bei Mardusari (ca. 9 min.) -- Screening for Pak Roesman (ca. 52 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4359

OCLC

275278817

Title

[Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java] [videorecording].

Imprint

1989 and 1990?

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Event

Screening for Institut Kesenian Jakarta recorded at the Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia (MMI) festival, location not identified, on Oct. 29, 1989.

Screening for Bu Bei Mardusari probably recorded in Surakarta, also called Solo, in 1990.

Screening for Pak Roesman probably recorded at Sriwedari Park, Surakarta, also called Solo, 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.

Local Note

The screening for Bu Bei Mardusari begins on *MGZIDVD 5-4361 [Tassilo Adam film screenings in Java].

Source

Gift; Skip La Plante.

Added Author

Djaikem.

Burton, Deena.

Institut Kesenian Jakarta.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4359