Saung Budaya Dance

Happy New Years!!! Stay tuned for 20 years of Saung Budaya… • #SaungBudaya #SaungBudayaNYC #IndonesianDance #IndonesianCulture #NYC NYCDancers Dance

Have you gotten your tickets yet? 2025 World Dance Festival is happening this Sunday 12/7 4pm at The Ailey Studios. See link in bio.

*NEW CLASS ALERT* Join us in learning Tari Tor-tor from North Sumatra! This dance has roots in honoring the ancestors for the Batak people. Classes with start Friday 11/7 at 6:30 PM. Location will be given upon sign up. Click on link in bio for more information or to sign up.

Good news, everyone! Saung Budaya will be resuming Friday classes starting September 5th and this time we will have a class for teens in middle school and high school. ⭐️Classes for adults will be at 6:30pm. ⭐️Classes for middle school and high school students will be at 5:30pm. We hope to see you all there! Scan the QR code or check the link in bio for registration form. #SaungBudaya #SaungBudayaNYC #IndoXNYC #IndonesianDance #IndonesianCulture #NYC #NYCDancers #Dance

Riau’s Pacu Jalur taking on a global scale

La MaMa Moves! Amalia Suryani presents Ta’na Nirau Saturday April 26th at 8pm Sunday April 27th at 5pm For more info, see link in bio #lamamaexperimentaltheatreclub #nycdancers #nyc #dancelife #indonesiandance

Meet our team for “Ta’na Nirau” Ta’na Nirau is rooted in the dance, music, and storytelling traditions of the Dayak tribes of Borneo, Indonesia, who are grappling with multiple existential challenges. These tribes are struggling with environmental destruction, land theft, illegal logging and palm oil plantations. Forests are destroyed by unchecked greed, with no regard for the suffering of earth’s creatures. This performance gives voice to the Indigenous resistance striving to restore denuded forests against all odds. Come see our performance on Saturday April 26th at 8pm or Sunday April 27th at 5pm For more info, check out link in bio!

La MaMa Moves! Amalia Suryani presents Ta’na Nirau Saturday April 26th at 8pm Sunday April 27th at 5pm For more info, see link in bio #lamamaexperimentaltheatreclub

Amazing workshop and performance by @rianto_rds we cannot express the amount of gratitude we have for you all for showing love and support for this month’s program! Thank you to @iffnewyork for collaborating with us (reminder: check out the film “Memories of my body” or “Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku” based on Rianto’s coming of age story). Congratulations @ilotnasailuj on a riveting musical performance! Once again, thank you to all who came out to dance or watch the show, hope you enjoyed it and stay tuned for future programs! 📸: @maria_curry0402 @nellatheknight #saungbudaya #saungbudayanyc #saungbudayadance #nycdancers #indonesiandance #lengger #banyumas #nyc #ripleygrier #gibney

Sastra Jiwangga: Journey of the Javanese Body A space between manhood and womanhood, between customs and religious principles, between conscious control and submission to trance, Lengger is both contradiction and reconciliation, a movement beyond binaries. Sastra Jiwangga is Rianto’s attempt to secure the survival of this form and a call to eschew strict dogma in favour of the layered diversity and embrace of mystery that is at the heart of Javanese tradition. A series of studies into the relationships between his religious body, social body, political body and traditional body, Rianto’s virtuosic movement language is combined with a live vocal and percussion score by local artist Julia Santoli. Sastra Jiwangga is a deeply personal portrait of Rianto the dancer. Featuring himself and a multi-disciplinary artist, experimental musician Julia Santoli on a bare stage, the piece goes to the roots of Indonesian traditional dance and music, exploring nature, spirituality and ritual with a stark minimalism. Rianto, who dances barefoot with trance-like concentration, moves from controlled, hypnotic movements to frenzied shaking. In his body, we see a fluid amalgamation which has stored movements from contemporary dance, classical Javanese dance and lengger, a traditional cross-gender dance from Central Java, in which he has trained since young. Saturday November 16th at 4:30 pm Ripley Grier Studio (305 W 38th ST, studio 312). Ticket: $20