Research Catalog

Title

[Javanese dance in the studio] [videorecording].

Publication

1989 or 1990.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Maridi

Description

2 videodiscs (NTSC) (106 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Deena Burton Collection

Subject

• Court dancing > Indonesia > Java
• Dance > Indonesia > Java
• Dance > Study and teaching > Indonesia > Java
• Golek (Dance)
• Combat dances
• Klono (Dance)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Event (note)

• Rengga mataya, Golek ayun ayun, and Beksan menak recorded at Pujokusuman, Yogyakarta, Java, in 1989 and/or 1990.
• Klana alus recorded in Java in 1989 and/or 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: Rengga mataya (ca. 22 min.) -- Roan (ca. 3 min.) -- Golek ayun ayun (ca. 11 min.) -- Beksan menak (27 min.).
• Disc 2: Beksan menak, continued (ca. 15 min.) -- Klana alus (ca. 28 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4327

OCLC

269406922

Title

[Javanese dance in the studio] [videorecording].

Imprint

1989 or 1990.

Series

Deena Burton Collection

System Details

DVD.

Event

Rengga mataya, Golek ayun ayun, and Beksan menak recorded at Pujokusuman, Yogyakarta, Java, in 1989 and/or 1990.

Klana alus recorded in Java in 1989 and/or 1990.

Summary

Javanese court dances recorded in class or rehearsal in the pendopo or open-air pavilion of Pujokusuman, home of a dance academy headed by Rama Sasminta Mardawa, with whom Deena Burton studied in 1989-1990. Although the dances are solos or duets (including the combat dance Beksan menak), they are performed by groups moving in unison or in pairs. Disc 1 also includes brief footage of Burton's infant son Roan. The dance solo Klana alus, recorded in an unidentified dance studio, portrays the character Klana or Klono, a king who appears in stories of the Javanese hero Panji. Presented here in the "alus" or refined male style, as opposed to the "gagah" or strong style, the solo is performed twice, each time by three dancers facing in different directions. The male dancer facing front in the first repetition is Pak Maridi from Surakarta, a city in Central Java also called Solo.

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

Golek (Dance)

Combat dances.

Klono (Dance)

Added Author

Maridi, dancer.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-4327