Juliet Widyasari Burnett
a solo dance work by Juliet Widyasari Burnett, with music by Indonesian artists Metatesis and Deathless premiered 2025, ALOW Gallery, Kombumerri Country/Gold Coast photos by Mark Seiffert

Ketok, Ora Ketok

a solo dance work by Juliet Widyasari Burnett, with music by Indonesian artists Metatesis and Deathless premiered 2025, ALOW Gallery, Kombumerri Country/Gold Coast photos by Mark Seiffert

a solo dance work by Juliet Widyasari Burnett, with music by Indonesian artists Metatesis and Deathless

premiered 2025, ALOW Gallery, Kombumerri Country/Gold Coast

photos by Mark Seiffert

Without shadow there is no light. Without light there is no shadow. Ketok, Ora Ketok is Javanese for Seen, Unseen . The seen (physical) and unseen (spiritual) realms, represented by the interplay of light and shadow, is central to the art of W

Without shadow there is no light. Without light there is no shadow.

Ketok, Ora Ketok is Javanese for Seen, Unseen. The seen (physical) and unseen (spiritual) realms, represented by the interplay of light and shadow, is central to the art of Wayang Kulit, or shadow puppetry. Its performance is as much storytelling as it is a purification ritual, that dances between concepts of duality and multiplicity: divine and human, good and evil, internal and external forces, micro and macro, dark and light, and all in between. 

Through the medium of Wayang Kulit, Ketok, Ora Ketok is a meditational exorcism, seeking balance and harmony between the multitude of selves.

choreography and performance: Juliet Widyasari Burnett music: Metatesis and Deathless set/lighting/costume: Juliet Widyasari Burnett producer: Michaela Coventry

choreography and performance: Juliet Widyasari Burnett

music: Metatesis and Deathless

set/lighting/costume: Juliet Widyasari Burnett

producer: Michaela Coventry

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The development of this project was supported by the City of Gold Coast Arts and Culture. We acknolwedge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which we worked, the Kombumerri Peoples, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

The development of this project was supported by the City of Gold Coast Arts and Culture.

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