Tahun 2019, Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia (KBRI) Washington DC menyelenggarakan kembali festival Performing Indonesia bekerjasama dengan Smitsonian Institute untuk mempromosikan salah satu Kebudayaan Indonesia, yaitu musik keroncong. Kolaborasi tersebut menghadirkan Endah Laras dan Danis Sugiyanto yang tampil di Meyer Auditorium, Smitsonian Institut. Penampilan mereka diiringi Kelompok Musik Rumput dari Richmond, Virginia yang dipimpin Prof. Andy McGraw.
Flyer kegiatan dapat dilihat terlampir.
The information of the Program of Performing Indonesia 2019 was published at the following link:
https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/performances/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D133840605
Schedule of the Performing Indonesia 2019
Popular Music from Java: Keroncong
PERFORMANCE
Popular Music from Java: Keroncong
Endah Laras, vocals; Danis Sugiyanto, violin; and Rumput
Saturday, October 5, 7:30 pm
Freer, Meyer Auditorium
Pre-concert talk, 6:45 pm, Andy McGraw, associate professor of music, University of Richmond, director of Gamelan Raga Kusuma, and codirector of Orkes Keroncong Rumput
Indonesian music stars Endah Laras (vocals) and Danis Sugiyanto (violin) join the American keroncong ensemble Rumput for an evening of traditional Indonesian string band music that traces its roots to the arrival of Portuguese sailors and freed slaves to the archipelago in the sixteenth century. Keroncong’s mellow, jaunty tunes feature vocals, violin, flute, guitar, cello, string bass, and the ukulele-like instruments called cak and cuk. The Rumput band toured Indonesia in 2017 and 2018.
Guest artist Endah Laras has collaborated with many of Indonesia’s leading music, dance, and theater artists, both domestically and abroad. She appeared in Garin Nugroho’s Opera Jawa in France and the Netherlands; with the puppeteer Ki Enthus Susmono in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Korea; and collaborated with dance choreographers from Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In 2016 she performed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year she appears as part of the “Servant of the World” project in Singapore and Berlin.
Violinist and composer Danis Sugiyanto has created and performed traditional and contemporary Indonesian music for concerts, musical theater, and dance productions throughout Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Australia. He was music arranger for the keroncong wayang project in Singapore in 2016 and performed at the Europalia Arts Festival in Belgium the same year. In 2018 he served as a Fulbright Visiting Artist-Scholar at the University of Richmond. He is a regular collaborator with Rahayu Supanggah, including his productions of King Lear in Singapore, Paris, and Japan; his workshops and performances in Taipei; and his Sound of the Beginning event in New York. His collaborations with theater director Robert Wilson on his I La Galigo have been staged in Melbourne, Jakarta, Italy, Taipei, and New York.
This evening’s concert, part of “Performing Indonesia,” is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Indonesia.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Popular Music from Java: Keroncong
Endah Laras, vocals; Danis Sugiyanto, violin; and Rumput
Sunday, October 6, 2 and 4 pm
Sackler level B1 lobby
Indonesian guest artists Danis Sugiyanto on violin and vocalist Endah Laras join the American keroncong band Rumput to demonstrate and discuss the traditional string band music of Indonesia and its connection to the arrival of Portuguese sailors and freed slaves to the archipelago in the sixteenth century. These programs are part of “Performing Indonesia” and are presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Indonesia.
PERFORMANCE
Indonesian Popular Music: Dangdut
Rhoma Irama and Lesti Andryani, vocals, with the Dangdut Cowboys
Saturday, November 2, 2019, 7:30 pm
Meyer Auditorium
Hear one of the legends of Indonesian music, vocalist Rhoma Irama, known as the “King of Dangdut” for his long career in which he fused traditional music with sounds from the West, Malay songs, and Bollywood into one of the country’s most popular genres. He is joined by the 20-year old newcomer Lesti Andryani who has won multiple singing awards since bursting on the scene in 2015. Backing them up is the Pittsburg-based Dangdut Cowboys. Made possible, in part, through support from the Embassy of Indonesia.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Indonesian Popular Music: Dangut
Rhoma Irama and Lesti Andryani, vocals, with the Dangdut Cowboys
Sunday, November 3, 2019, 1 and 4 pm
Sackler level B-1 lobby
Performing Indonesia: 2016-2013
Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia (KBRI) Washington DC menyelenggarakan festival Performing Indonesia bekerjasama dengan Smitsonian Institute untuk mempromosikan berbagai aspek Kebudayaan Indonesia. Di tahun 2016, tema Performing Indonesia adalah Islamic Intersections, detail dari acara ini dapat dilihat di dua buku program untuk Performing Indonesia 2016 di bawah ini.
Performing Indonesia 2016 Part 2
Performing Indonesia 2016 Part 1
Di tahun 2014, tema Performing Indonesia adalah Music, Dance and Theater from West Java, detail dari acara ini dapat dilihat di buku Program untuk Performing Indonesia 2014 di bawah ini :
Di tahun 2013, Performing Indonesia adalah konferensi dan festival musik, tari, dan drama, detail dari acara ini dapat dilihat di buku program untuk Performing Indonesia 2013 di bawah ini :
Publikasi elektronik makalah-makalah yang dipresentasikan yang dilengkapi dengan berbagai video, foto, dapat dilihat di http://www.asia.si.edu/research/performing-indonesia/default.php