Taufik Darwis

By adelyn-1800, 21 November, 2022
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Taufik Darwis is a dramaturg and researcher based in Bandung, the capital city of West Java province, Indonesia. He is co-founder of the Bandung Performing Arts Forum. Since March 2016, he has been a co-curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival. In 2018, Taufik has been invited as a guest curator at the Teater Garasi / Garasi Performance Institute. 

In 2016, Taufik attended the Art Summit Indonesia dramaturgy workshops on dramaturgy run by Ugoran Prasad and Peter Eckersall. He was also involved in a dramaturgy forum organised by Teater Grasi in Yogyakarta, which runs presently under the name Dramaturgy Assembly.

With the Bandung Performing Arts Forum, Taufik worked as a dramaturg/director in the following productions: Cut Off: to See, See Oneself, to be Seen (2016), which reads the indigenous body as an artefact of colonialisation; Di Luar dari yang Di Luar (2016), a theatre project which reads the quality of living spaces of others in other cities through the perspective of migrants living in their new city; Malam Minggu Metal (2017), a collaborative performing arts project involving actors, choreographers, dancers, composers, and metal bands in reading the quality of life in Bandung from the standpoint of the metal community; and Membeli Ingatan (2017), a performance archive project based on dramaturgy resistance research on theatre in Bandung from 1997 to 2011. Taufik has also worked on Ari-Ari (2013), Maem Mendut (2014), To The Tit (2016), and Manusia Hotel No.00 (2017).

Last Updated: 2018

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