Tianzhuo Chen, Siko Setyanto

Ocean Cage

Théâtre de la Cité internationale
septembersept 14 – 19
1/3

French premiere

2h

In Indonesian, with English subtitles

Walking performance

Prices €8 to €27
Subscribers €8 to €17

Théâtre de la Cité internationale
Théâtre de la Cité internationale
17, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
01 85 53 53 85

RER : Cité Universitaire (RER B)
Tramway : Cité Universitaire (T3)

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Monday september 14

20h

Tuesday september 15

20h

Thursday september 17

19h

Friday september 18

20h

Saturday september 19

18h

Directed by Tianzhuo Chen. Choreography and performance Siko Setyanto. Music Kadapat and Nova Ruth. Costumes Chenting Yu. Make-up Una Ryu. Textile design Diane Esnault. Lighting desig Akihiko Tanida. Sound design  Martin Ortiz. Technical direction Francisca Marques. Technical production Paul Mede. Assistant and stage manager Diane Esnault. Production and management partner in crime.

Production partner in crime; Tianzhuo Chen
Co-production HAU—Hebbel am Ufer; Arsenic Lausanne; Kyoto Experiment; Kampnagel Hamburg; tanzhaus NRW
With the support of Capital Culture Fund Berlin

The Théâtre de la Cité internationale and le Festival d’Automne à Paris present this production as a co-production.

Chinese artist Tianzhuo Chen and Indonesian performer Siko Setyanto present Ocean Cage, a performative installation envisaged as a cry that rings out over the centuries, between struggle, ritual and quest for redemption.


Within the cosmological and philosophical traditions of Southeast and Southwest Asia, the sacred and the everyday coexist without any formal separation. Ocean Cage finds its point of departure in Lamalera, a fishing village on the island of Lembata in the east of Indonesia. What makes this village so particular is that it is one of the last remaining places in the world in which the population lives from whale hunting. The Lamalari people make use of rituals for transcending reality and safeguarding hope. Deeply rooted in the narratives of this village, the duo combine video, dance, performance, and music in their invitation to audiences to bathe in this oceanic, animal and spiritual universe. Siko Setyanto, the protagonist in the piece, embodies different divine, human and animistic figures. In the company of Indonesian musicians Kadapat and Nova Ruth, what unfurls is a visual, choreographic and sound-based whirlwind in which tradition and ecology, spirituality and technology rub shoulders, as well as a belief in progress and interspecies symbiosis.

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