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...epic, it's usually nothing more than a publicist's bombast. Yet when Robert Wilson's I La Galigo premieres in Singapore on March 12, it will be literally true: the four-hour spectacle of song and dance, mantra and martial arts is based upon a classic of Indonesian literature, an epic poem almost unknown outside the archipelago until now. The poem, also called I La Galigo, survives in thousands of fragmentary manuscripts and was written in an archaic Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able to understand. It runs to some 300,000 lines...
...Singapore's flash new Esplanade performing-arts center, the production will embark upon an epic journey of its own?a series of shows in Europe and America that will culminate at New York City's Lincoln Center in 2005. This will be the most high-profile presentation of Indonesian performing arts abroad since the founding of the republic more than half a century...
...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...
...Number of Indonesian domestic helpers who fell to their deaths from high-rises in Singapore between 1999 and mid-2003. The city-state's government has begun a program to teach maids how to clean windows and hang laundry safely...
...remorseful because Muslims became victims. The ones who I targeted were Americans. Now I have to be accountable." Mohammed Rais, suspected Islamic militant, on trial for his alleged involvement in last August's bombing at Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel. Eleven of the 12 who died were Indonesian...