ON STAGE
Jumat, 3 Maret 2023
Pukul 19.30 – 22.00 WIB
Teater Arena
Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah Surakarta
Jl. Ir. Sutami No. 57, Kentingan, Surakarta 57126
Indonesia Performance Syndicate & Teater Bumikalamtara Jakarta
The Convincers of Heaven Collapse
oleh Wendy HS & Joe Mirshal
The Convincers of Heaven Collapse adalah karya kolaboratif antara komunitas Indonesia Performance Syndicate dan Teater Bumikalamtara Jakarta. Karya ini pertama kali dipentaskan pada 8 Desember 2022 di Goethe-Institut Jakarta dalam rangkaian Lebaran Teater, Festival Teater Jakarta 2022 yang diselenggarakan oleh Dewan Kesenian Jakarta. Pada tahun 2023, pertunjukan ini diproduksi ulang dan dipentaskan secara keliling di beberapa kota.
Secara konseptual, pertunjukan ini mengusung pendekatan Total Body Performance, yaitu metode kerja tubuh yang mengintegrasikan tiga unsur utama dalam seni pertunjukan: lelakuan (akting), gegerakan (tari), dan bebunyian (musik) yang diolah secara internal oleh para performer untuk membentuk ekspresi artistik yang menyeluruh.
Secara tematik, karya ini mengadaptasi gagasan dari cerpen “Robohnya Surau Kami” karya A.A. Navis. Cerpen yang fenomenal pada dekade 1970-an ini menawarkan refleksi tajam terhadap dinamika sosial-politik masyarakat. Dengan relevansi konteks yang semakin kuat terhadap kondisi sosial-politik Indonesia masa kini, Wendy dan Joe memilih untuk menghadirkan adaptasi artistiknya di atas panggung menggunakan metode Total Body Performance. Metode ini berangkat dari pengembangan elemen tubuh dalam Tapuak Galemboang dalam seni pertunjukan tradisional Randai dari masyarakat Minangkabau, Sumatera Barat.
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Sutradara: Wendy HS & Joe Mirshal
Penata Cahaya: Yanuar Edy
Bincang Seniman bersama Halim HD
ON STAGE
Friday, March 3, 2023
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM WIB
Teater Arena
Central Java Cultural Park, Surakarta
Jl. Ir. Sutami No. 57, Kentingan, Surakarta 57126
Indonesia Performance Syndicate & Teater Bumikalamtara Jakarta
“The Convincers of Heaven Collapse”
byWendy HS & Joe Mirshal
The Convincers of Heaven Collapse is a collaborative work between the Indonesia Performance Syndicate and Teater Bumikalamtara Jakarta. This performance premiered on December 8, 2022, at the Goethe-Institut Jakarta as part of Lebaran Teater, Jakarta Theatre Festival 2022, organized by the Jakarta Arts Council. In 2023, the production was revived and toured several cities.
Conceptually, the work is based on the Total Body Performance approach, a body technique that integrates three main artistic elements: acting, dancing, and musicing — all generated internally by each performer to create a total artistic expression.
Thematically, the performance adapts ideas from A.A. Navis’s short story “Robohnya Surau Kami” (The Collapse of Our Prayer House), a highly influential story from the 1970s that critically reflects sociopolitical developments. Given its strong contextual relevance to Indonesia’s current sociopolitical climate, Wendy and Joe chose to realize their artistic vision on stage through the Total Body Performance method. This concept is derived from the bodily artistic elements of Tapuak Galemboang in Randai, a traditional performance art from the Minangkabau community in West Sumatra.
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Directors: Wendy HS & Joe Mirshal
Lighting Designer: Yanuar Edy
Artist Talk with Halim HD
Wendy HS
Memulai perjalanannya dalam dunia teater sejak tahun 1990-an di Teater Plus, INS Kayutanam, Sumatera Barat. Ia adalah alumnus INS Kayutanam, Jurusan Seni Teater FSP ISI Yogyakarta, dan Program Pascasarjana PSPSR UGM Yogyakarta.
Tinggal di Yogyakarta sejak 1996 hingga 2006, Wendy kemudian kembali ke kampung halamannya dan menjadi dosen di Program Studi Seni Teater, Fakultas Seni Pertunjukan, ISI Padangpanjang, serta mendirikan Teater Tambologi Padangpanjang. Ia telah terlibat dalam berbagai produksi teater dan film indie di Yogyakarta, serta beberapa sinetron dan film layar lebar.
Ia juga pernah mengikuti pelatihan Suzuki Method melalui program Bumi Purnati Jakarta dan SCOT Japan di Togamura, Jepang, dan Bali (2016–2017). Wendy menerima Hibah Inovatif Yayasan Kelola (2009 & 2017) serta Hibah Ruang Kreatif Garin Workshop – Djarum Foundation (2018). Karya-karyanya telah dipentaskan di berbagai negara seperti Singapura, Malaysia, Jepang, India, Taiwan, Belarusia, dan lainnya.
Pada 2019, ia berkolaborasi dengan Yuko Kawamoto dan kelompok Shinonome Butoh Tokyo, Jepang dalam penyelenggaraan Asia Butoh Camp di Padangpanjang. Sejak 2016, Wendy aktif mengembangkan metode pertunjukan kontemporer berbasis Total Body Performance bersama komunitas Indonesia Performance Syndicate.
Joe Mirshal
Pimpinan Teater Bumikalamtara Jakarta, Joe memulai kariernya di dunia seni dengan turut mendirikan komunitas sastra dan pertunjukan Dangau Seni Rell 1689 di Padang (1989). Ia kemudian bergabung sebagai aktor di Bumi Teater di bawah arahan Wisran Hadi (1992–1996), sebelum hijrah ke Jakarta pada 1996.
Joe pernah mengikuti Drama Acting Class RCTI (1997) dan menjadi aktor kontrak di Teater Tanah Airku – TMII (1997–1999). Sejak 2012, ia aktif berkarya bersama Teater Bumikalamtara. Ia pernah menjadi nominator dan pemenang Festival Teater Jakarta (2013), serta tampil dalam Lebaran Teater – Festival Teater Jakarta 2022 pada 8 Desember 2022 lalu.
Wendy HS
Wendy began her theater journey in the 1990s with Teater Plus, INS Kayutanam, West Sumatra. She is an alumna of INS Kayutanam, Theatre Arts Department at FSP ISI Yogyakarta, and holds a postgraduate degree from PSPSR Graduate School, UGM Yogyakarta.
She lived in Yogyakarta from 1996 to 2006, then returned to her hometown to teach in the Theatre Arts Program, Faculty of Performing Arts, ISI Padangpanjang, and founded Teater Tambologi Padangpanjang. Wendy has been involved in numerous theater and independent film productions, TV series, and feature films.
She trained in the Suzuki Acting Method through programs with Bumi Purnati Jakarta and SCOT Japan in Togamura, Japan, and Bali (2016–2017). Wendy is a recipient of the Innovative Grant from Kelola Foundation (2009 & 2017) and the Creative Space Grant from Garin Workshop – Djarum Foundation (2018). Her works have been staged in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, India, Taiwan, Belarus, and other countries.
In 2019, she collaborated with Yuko Kawamoto and the Shinonome Butoh Group from Tokyo, Japan, to organize the Asia Butoh Camp in Padangpanjang, West Sumatra. Since 2016, Wendy has been actively leading the creative process of contemporary performances based on the Total Body Performance Method developed within the Indonesia Performance Syndicate.
Joe Mirshal
Joe is the leader of Teater Bumikalamtara Jakarta. He began his artistic career co-founding the literary and performing arts group Dangau Seni Rell 1689 in Padang in 1989. He then joined Bumi Teater under Wisran Hadi as an actor from 1992 to 1996 before moving to Jakarta in 1996.
Joe participated in the RCTI Drama Acting Class (1997) and was contracted as an actor at Teater Tanah Airku – TMII (1997–1999). Since 2012, he has been active with Teater Bumikalamtara. Joe was a winner and nominee at the Jakarta Theatre Festival (2013) and most recently performed in Lebaran Teater, Jakarta Theatre Festival 2022 on December 8, 2022.
