Centhini : Empat Puluh Malam dan Satunya Hujan & Work in progress performance “Tafsir Kata Raga Cent @ The Actors Studio @ Lot 10, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

As is the case for all Javanese classical literature, The Book of Centhini was sung in fragments, and also danced to the music of a celembung (thirteen double-stringed cythara), a gamblang (xylophone) and a gambus (seven-string lute). In the process of rendering these cantos in French, Elizabeth D. Inandiak constantly sought to preserve their oral origin and ritual character. It is therefore under this song and dance form that she is presenting some excerpts of her version of The Book of Centhini, in collaboration with the great Javanese dancer Didik Nini Thowok who incarnates all the characters of the poem, male and female, from the most refined to the most outrageous