Creation of Intercultural Performing Arts for Virtual Stage of Bandung Isola Performing Arts Festival

Abstract

Previous research in 2017 has been created annual festival namely Bandung Isola Performing Arts Festival (BIPAF) at UPI which presented collaborative dance choreographies such as "Touching Unknown People" (2017-2018), Korean Contemporary Mask Dance (2018).The dancers and choreographers came from Indonesia and South Korea.Nevertheless, the movements and music still referred to a modern dance and traditional Korean idioms, while the movements rooted from Indonesian dances were not presented.Therefore, the purpose of this research is to explore intercultural concept to create contemporary performing arts and to increase intercultural understanding within two countries in Asia.The research method uses a participatory action research.The researchers involve actively in the process of study about the previous research and dances which were created for collaboration and we examine the festivals that use the virtual stages.Then, the researchers formulate intercultural concept to create contemporary performing arts for the virtual stage in BIPAF.Data were collected by interview, participatory observation, study of document, focus group discussion, and reflection.Data were analyzed using triangulation technic.Findings of this research confirm that increasing intercultural understanding can be achieved by creating performing arts in collaborative work within dancers, choreographers, and music composer.The result of collaborative works is a form of reality and virtual livestreaming performance A-Forest, containing movements and music idiom rooted from West Java and teleholografis dancers from South Korea and Japan.