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Tusumba and others knew there might be a way to do things differently. As long ago as 1998, villagers in the east Congo community of Tayna came up with the idea of running their own reserve to protect the Grauer's gorilla. The locals determined the areas that would be set aside as wildlife zones, human communities or mixed-use areas. They decided how access would be controlled; and if there was work to be had as trackers, guards or porters, they would do it. In 2001 Mehlman, then working for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, approached his employers...
...germination of the show dates to 1995, when New York 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...
...Nonetheless, the production has already provoked controversy in Indonesia. One scholar objected to Grauer's abridgment of the epic's plot, although the show's four-hour running time will strike few theatergoers as scandalously brief. Some Indonesian artists are worried that the work's cultural identity, its "Indonesianness," is at risk simply because the show is directed by a Westerner. Kusumaningrum, the principal Indonesian member of the creative team, sees the controversy as evidence of Indonesia's inferiority complex: of a self-deprecating belief that the country's traditional arts are somehow not as worthy as foreign culture...
...doula's presence does not guarantee a complication-free birth, but the emotional support she provides can be invaluable. Ann Grauer's doula was with her in Milwaukee, Wis., when doctors told her that the child she was about to deliver would be stillborn. Her doula consoled her throughout the painful ordeal. Says Grauer: "It was amazing the peace of mind my doula was able to give me." The same doula was there later for the birth of her son. "It was such a celebration. We are still very close...