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Chinese artists turn stranded story into a show in Yogyakarta
The three then decided to go to Yogyakarta where during their waiting period they participated in a program held by the Yogyakarta-based Teater Garasi (Garasi Performance Institute). They joined the Satelit Cabaret Chairil program, which was designed to be a creative lab, and there Tourists Like Us: Satu, Dua, Tiga was born.
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Wu Lu (right) dances as July Yang (left) plays the bamboo flute during their performance. (JP/Bambang Muryanto)
F
or Chinese artists Wu Lu and July Yang the stage is a safe haven where they can express their creativity and emotions, even with masks covering their faces.
Wu Lu danced along to the rhythm of a bamboo flute played by July, with both donning light blue masks on their faces while performing over the weekend for a local theater group in Yogjakarta.
They performed the participatory show Tourists Like Us: Satu, Dua, Tiga (Tourists Like Us: One, Two, Three) in which they invited five members of the audience on stage. There sat various decorations like a table, chairs, a lamp, a broom, a box of tissues, a thermometer, electric mosquito repellent and a backpack.
The artists from Shanghai created the performance based on their recent experience being stranded in Indonesia due to the global outbreak of the COVID -19 coronavirus.
“We want to express our feelings, the feelings beyond the surface,” July said on Saturday.
July, Wu Lu and their colleague Bulan were among five artists from China who traveled to Indonesia on Feb. 1 to learn the traditional masked dance in Cirebon, West Java.
Things got complicated when one of them developed a fever amid fears of the COVID-19 outbreak, the epicenter of which is Wuhan in Hubei province, China.
