an experimental dance work by Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati
premiered 2025, Temperance Hall, Naarm/Melbourne
as part of the inaugural Temper program
photos by Jeff Busby
In the world of CYVASA 2.0, ancient Javanese spirituality merges with techno-fantasy aesthetics and glitch distortion. The trans and cis female bodies are dynamic, sacred entities from this speculative future, untethered from patriarchal history. Here, desire is a driving force that transforms the body’s architecture - a pulsating, liquid machine that is continuously upgrading, reprogrammed and reincarnated.
This is not a stage, but a temple, laboratory and server room, where new digital deities are born.
Concept, choreography + performance: Juliet Widyasari Burnett + Ishvara Devati
Music: Metatesis (Dyah Isaka + Nadya Hatta)
Costume Designer: Aleisa Jelbart
Set Designer: Juliet Widyasari Burnett
Lighting Designer, Set Fabrication & Production Manager: Alex Torney
Producer: Michaela Coventry - Sage Arts
This project is supported by Experience Gold Coast, Temperance Hall Melbourne, Performance Space and Critical Path’s Experimental Choreographic Residency, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
We acknolwedge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which we worked, the Birrabirragal, Gadigal and Boon Wurrung Peoples, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded.