Want to Try Hip-hop Local Flavor?
Want to try to enjoy the rhythm of the music genre of hip-hop with local flavor? Please try a work titled "We Came from the east" by a young choreographer Jecko Siompo papua birth.
"To me it is very eastern Indonesia and "we Came from the east" is originally from Indonesia because of hip-hop was born in Papua. You do not have to believe me but my ancestors who tell him. "Siompo Jecko said in a press conference in GoetheHaus Jakarta, Thursday (7 / 4).
He said elements of hip-hop combined with traditional movements typical of Papua which is inspired by the behavior of animals such as kangaroo dance style.
"I want to restore confidence in the people through my work. And I want to encourage young people other than their preferred technology, they also have to re-look at its culture." he said
Jecko claimed to learn the tradition first and then new to hip hop, "Why are we retarded because we do not want to manage our culture, because culture is the door to get knowledge." continued
On the same occasion Frank Werner's head Goethe Institut Indonesien Culture program says, "Goethe Institute appreciates and supports the career Jecko siompo and staged several works Jecko our prime place before becoming a masterpiece are staged in various cities in the world."
The work "we Came from the east" is a joint production project with the Goethe Institut Indonesien JeckosDance, Kampnagel Hamburg, Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin and The Esplanade-Theatre on the Bay Singapore.
"We Came from the east" consists of ten dancers and two of them are dancers from Germany who came from Berlin and Leipzig.
People - people were recognized Jecko strengthen and increase the repertoire of artistic ideas while the rest is the Indonesian people who came from Java, Makassar, Ambon, and Padang.
"I believe our tradition of older and more correct and I want to implement it through hip-hop, I was born in Indonesia have been confronted with the diversity and creativity." Jecko said
"We Came from the East" will be presented on 12 April in GoetheHaus and in Kampagnagel Theater on April 20 to 22 2011 in Germany which will be witnessed around 2000 spectators.
Jecko real name Kurniawan Siompo Jeck Pui, He was born in Jayapura Papua on April 4, 1975. Began to wrestle world choreography since 1994 and registered as a student he began the Jakarta Arts Institute (IKJ), majoring in dance.
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