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...Wilson created his new piece in Bali, with an international creative team and an all-Indonesian cast and orchestra. A recent workshop performance at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, situated in a jungle ravine amid terraced paddy fields, showcased Wilson's stage legerdemain at work. Flimsy sets produced majestic effects: a great seagoing ship was created with a few artfully twisted bamboo culms; a parade of animals sprang to life from bits of cloth, paper and string. The birth of the title character was represented by winding and unwinding the mother from a series of gorgeous sarongs...
...evening of rock theater with Lou Reed?or the staging of an ancient Bugis epic. "Paris is a beautiful city because it has a beautiful structure," he says, explaining that a harmonious overall pattern is more important than any of the individual elements that fill it. "Here in Bali we begin by creating the bones of the piece, and put on the flesh. Finally, we will put on the skin." By skin he means the sets, costumes, and especially the lighting, always a crucial element in a Wilson production...
...City-based filmmaker Rhoda Grauer was traveling in Sulawesi to research a documentary about the Bugis and learned about the epic poem. Dazzled by its dramatic potential, Grauer decided to bring the work to the stage, and recruited her friend Restu Kusumaningrum, a dancer and the creative director of Bali Purnati. Both women had previously worked with Wilson and they wanted him to stage their discovery. After their presentation at his summer workshop in Water Mill, New York, Wilson agreed to take on the project...
...production has ignited enormous interest in Indonesia's intellectual circles. In February, the influential Bali-based arts journal Latitudes devoted a special issue to I La Galigo?the poem and the show. Indonesian actress and icon Christine Hakim is filming a documentary about the production. Yet it is unclear whether the show will ever be performed in its home country. No theater in Indonesia has the technical resources to stage it, and the cost of renting and hauling the necessary machinery even to Jakarta is prohibitive in a nation that spends very little on culture...
TIME is built on the strength of its reporters, and this month we lost one of our best: SANDRA BURTON, 62, who died suddenly in Bali. Sandy was one of the first female correspondents we sent into the field. In 1982, she came to Asia?which she would make her home?and the next year, she accompanied exiled dissident Benigno Aquino Jr. on his fateful return to the Philippines, then ruled by his archenemy, Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino was gunned down when he left the plane. Sandy placed her tape recorder against a plane window, and its record of gunshots...