EKI Dance Company

Brief History

Aiko and Rusdy then took the risk by bringing those people to their home. As Rusdy is a choreographer, he started teaching the youngsters very basic body movements. Later, in 1998, Sujiwo Tejo also joined in and added drama and vocal training to the programme.

After few years of hard work, discipline and intensive training, they were progressing amazingly well. It turned out that, by using the performing arts as a methodology, they were 'healed' both emotionally and physically. Above all, they found a new meaning in life by knowing their lives' directions.

At present, these young people have become professional artists –mostly dancers – beside being actors and/or musicians. However, they are free to decide. If someone were more interested in stagecraft rather than in dancing then s/he would be transferred to learn stagecraft. In other instances, there are dancers wanted to join the management staff. In EKI everyone is free to choose his/her interest, as long as they take full responsibility and exert great discipline.

EKI is an ideal place for creativity development and learning center. All artists, production crews and management staff live together in a dormitory complex, getting their routine daily classes as body movements, various modern-dance techniques, choreography and acting, English language, literature and poetry, communication etiquette, music/vocal training and many more. All those learnings prove their totality to dedicate their life to Arts.

That is how, from a modest dance-training center, EKI has transformed into a cultural canopy for Arts.

The Spirit of Karmawibhangga

Long before modern Indonesia had formed a nation, German anthropologist Adolf Bastian commented that, "indigenous people from this equatorial archipelago had always been accustomed to express their feelings and hopes, their fears and dreams, their anxieties and optimism through various artistic manifestations". The splendid stone relief, named the Karmawibhangga at the base of the Borobudur Temple in Central Java, is a superb example of such a manifestation. The world's largest Buddhist temple, build during the Syailendra dynasty (752-832 AD) carries images of almost all aspects of people's daily life. They were marvelously engraved in an honest and truthful fashion.

Karma is concerned with consequences in life and Wibhangga means the circle of life.

No matter who you are, what kind of background you have, everyone is in the Karmawibhangga. Karmawibhangga is not just a monument but a proud and marvelous legacy we should be proud of. In the past, in the present, and in the future.

Today, more than 1200 years later, the vigorous and straightforward message delivered by that cold grey granite is the spiritual base of our company, Eksotika Karmawibhangga Indonesia (EKI).

Video Gallery

Gondrang - Viky Sianipar Live with Eki Dance Co.		LED Dance by EKI Dance Company		Trailer Jakarta Love Riot

Miss Kadaluwarsa		Chinamoon (Four Star Wedding)