The Embodiment of Masculine and Feminine | Rianto - | TEDxMlatiWomen

Lengger Dance is a traditional art originated from Banyumas which combines masculinity and femininity in one performance. Right now, Lengger is struggling to maintain its existence and fight against time, changes of preferences, and most importantly: stigma. The talk is a story about Rianto's fight in conserving the thing that he loves the most. Rianto Manali is a Lengger Lanang dance performer. This dance is a dance from Banyumas that shows the practice of cross-dressing, a man that dance women figure, as the medium to express body, gender, and construction. Recently, he joined Akram Khan Company, England. Some of his outstanding previous works were Soft Machine – a solo work under the direction of Choy Ka Fai – and Medium that was performed in 2016, and has been performed at the Esplanade Da:ns Festival in 2018. In 2018, he presented his creation entitled Hijrah, which is Rianto’s creation about gender migration. It was performed on May 25 at ArtJog, Yogyakarta. In 2019, he became a cast in the film Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku (Memories of My Body), a film that lifts the story of Lengger Banyumasan and raised issues about Indonesian art that were threatened with extinction due to the rejection of its own community. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx