Kasekten

Kasekten is a dance, live music and performance art work collaboration between Javanese-Australian dancer-choreographer Juliet Widyasari Burnett, Javanese extreme metal vocalist Karina Utomo and Australian visual artist Michaela Gleave.

A ceremonial morphoses inside an art installation setting resembling a volcano crater, the work takes its structure from the Javanese understanding of the cyclical nature of time and seen and unseen worlds, to weave an arc in which powerful forces interplay, and embedded patriarchal histories are inverted to create a new future.

director + choreographer: Juliet Widyasari Burnett

composer: Karina Utomo

installation artist: Michaela Gleave

costume designer: Felicia Budi

costume supervisor: Aleisa Jelbart 

producers: Michaela Coventry, Ratri Anindyajati 

production manager: Alex Torney

performers: Juliet Widyasari Burnett, Karina Utomo

The development of Kasekten has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland; and Project Eleven.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which we worked, the Gamaragal People, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded.