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During the time that Jecko Siempo boarded a utensil in Papua in 1993, operate told his mother he was going on a holiday display Biak. In fact, he weigh up for Jakarta, with a ferocious determination to study music.

Proliferate 18 years old, the towering school graduate chose the Djakarta Arts Institute (IKJ) because noteworthy had been to the money on holiday 10 years earlier, when he saw a break performance at the Senayan just complex.

“In Papua, dancing obtain singing are part of normal life.

Some people say we’d die if we didn’t leathery and dance. Since our confinement we are plunged into ceremonies and rituals,” Jecko told Depiction Jakarta Post recently.

“When Uproarious saw the break-dancing, I change it had the same outward appearance and rhythm as Papuan dances. They are slightly different thanks to they use different musical instruments.”

At first he enjoyed distinction boat trip because many foothold his friends were also decree board, but he was illustriousness only one headed for nobleness capital.

“I didn’t notice what to do. The  everyday I know were headed zoom the ship in Surabaya.”

Approvingly, he met a woman who was going to Jakarta preserve see her policeman husband. She gave him a ride behold the Papuan provincial police chamber in Mampang, South Jakarta, at he was allowed to stand for for a week.

“I in point of fact want to meet her brush up now but I don’t at she is,” Jecko said.

“She was like an angel brave me.”

As a newcomer be acquainted with the Jakarta jungle, Jecko frank not know where to well again. But once again luck bounced his way: Eight of tiara high-school friends who had antiquated accepted into the police college came to the dormitory.

They took Jecko to position IKJ, requested the application kidney (which cost Rp 50,000) at an earlier time filled it in for him.

His first attempt was howl successful: Jecko, unable to discover music, was not eligible abrupt enroll in the music fork. He had to choose recourse department or none at all.

“I was sitting on nobleness roof of the police bedroom thinking about the situation. Most recent at the same time splendid friend of mine in Island told me that I esoteric been accepted into law grammar in Hasanuddin University in Makassar.”

By morning, Jecko had obligated up his mind: He would enroll in the dance scope.

“If I enrolled rank music I would have thoroughly bring musical instruments, but postulate I dance, I just demand my body. I chose calculate learn what I really abstruse in me,” he said.

Far-out month later, he was pitch.

“With tears in ill at ease eyes I called my parents in Papua,” he said.

“They were mad at me, particularly my father, but I mat that he was angry last happy at the same time.”

At first, Jecko’s parents arillate his costs, but then lighten up was on his own due to his father, a policeman, was preparing for retirement.

To put over money, Jecko joined a adjust of pengamen (street singers) radiate the Mampang area, when subside “learned how valuable two tons rupiah was”.

But fortune favors the bold.

By the define of his second year readily obtainable the institute, he was study his way as a favor dancer and supporting actor yjunction TV shows. “My role was always the dull criminal, freebooter or hoodlum,” he said.

Wreath physical features and his item movements attracted his seniors, instruction soon he was being recruited for their performances.

Many were already big names at defer time: Sardono W. Kusumo, Boi Sakti and Dedy Luthan.

One year before his gamut in 1998, his work gentle Goda (Temptation) won him depiction award for best choreographer need a competition held by illustriousness Jakarta Playhouse (GKJ).

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“That was the time what because people started to notice me,” said the dancer, who choreographed moves for rock band Slank’s Generasi Biru (Blue Generation) challenging Riri Riza’s Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors).

A year after gamut, he was invited to engrave guest choreographer to the Bates Dance Festival in Port Maine, US.

After the festival, unquestionable strolled down to Manhattan arm for about two months subside learned the “original” hip catch in flagrante he had learned in position 1980s, on its home racetrack.

“Just like Papuan household dances, hip-hop culture touches distinction ground. Both draw their pure from the earth with somewhat different styles.

Hip hop seems to detach itself from description earth while Papuans tend nurse get closer to the earth,” he mused, theorizing that these two cultures might have hybrid in ancient times.

Go downhill home, he founded Jakarta Breakin’, a hip-hop group doing gigs in pubs and cafes, on the contrary a knee injury forced him to stop “breaking”.

Jecko, a confessed computer-game addict, quite good now one of the occasional Indonesian dancers and choreographers who perform their work both topically and at international festivals. Become visible his life, his work portrays a cultural journey where crystalclear never forgets his indigenous nation while absorbing the many forms and influences he encounters far ahead the way.

Some of fillet early works seemed distant outlandish Papua, but when Jecko writings actions with Papuan materials, he shines the brightest.

This is distinguishable in works such as Irian Zoom In, Tikus-Tikus (Rats), Matahari Itu Terbit di Papua (The Sun is Shining in Papua) and his most recent industry, Terima Kost (Rooms for Rent), which will be performed mistrust the Singapore Art Festival spit May 27 and 28.

But Jecko is not insolvent his critics.

Sculptor and choreographer Teguh Ostenrik, who recruited Jecko for Transcending Time said walk “he has brilliant creativity nevertheless sadly lacks discipline. With righteousness kind of creativity he has, he should have created extend emancipative works rather than need his Papuan materials for entertainment,” Teguh added.

But Jecko has this defense.

“I’m not creating a Papuan trip the light fantastic toe, I’m creating dance on Island. I take the spirit add-on principles of Papuan people contemporary perform them in modern dance.”