Music Shows And Workshops Will Be Present At SIFest 2024

The 2024 SIFest press conference (doc. Salihara Community)

JAKARTA - Salihara International Performing Arts Festival or SIPFest 2024 is back to greet art connoisseurs. This event will take place at Salihara Arts Center, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta on 2-31 August.

Dozens of music, dance, and theater artists from within and outside the country will appear in the form of performances and workshops with their respective theme.

Nirwan Dewanto as Director of the Salihara Arts Center Community Program said this event was presented as recreation, where arts and culture came with joy and independence.

SIFest 2024 is a arena for artists and the audience to share creativity, novelty and joy. An effort to develop another order, which is unusual. said Nirwan Dewanto in an official statement.

The New Art Organization has become a jargon in SIPFest this year. Nirwan explained that the art order in question can invite us to renew ourselves and open up creative spaces that are closed by official power,

'Article not only overcomes politics, but also fills spaces that are not filled with politics. Art provides alternatives to clich and scene that are peddled by politics. Art invites us to renew ourselves and our society. Art is tempting, surprising, as well as fun. Opening the spaces of creativity that are covered with official power. We dream of other orders through art,' said Nirwan.

Meanwhile, music performances in the 2024 SIPFest will feature LOVE IS (August 10-11) and Gamelan Sahukat (August 20-21) from Indonesia, as well as Ensemble Studio C (August 7-8) from Malaysia.

The music workshop will also be presented twice, with supervisors from domestic and foreign musicians.

The first workshop with the theme New Way of Integrating Traditional Instruments on August 6 will present three traditional Chinese musicians from Ensemble Studio C, namely Su Yun Han (pipe), Gill Toh (zied), and Cloud Teo (guzheng), who will provide material regarding traditional Chinese musical instruments.

They will use the repertoire of traditional and contemporary works in the Eternity Glimpse into a Secret Garden' show, a concert featuring Asian composers to demonstrate the legacy and innovation of their musical instruments.

Meanwhile, the second workshop with the theme Imagination regime' invites participants to examine the musical composition of the album LOVE IS.

Jason Mountario, Sri Hanuraga, and Kelvin Andreas will share a method of creating works, as well as a process of collectively structured written material reimagination by structured free improvisation.

In addition, dance and theater performances will present Lucy Guerin Inc. (Australia), CCOTBBAT (South Korea), Numen Company (Germany), Jecko Siompo, Megatruh Banyu Mili, Annastasya Verina, and Theater Koma (Indonesia).

The complete schedule and details of their performances and workshops compiled by several performers can be seen through sipfest.salihara.org.