TAHANGUENTAR

With Adela Maharani, Giuliana Corsi, Asarela Dewi, Bintang Manira Manik and Marcioz

TAHANGUENTAR is a choreographed sound and visual performance mixing elements of cinematographic dramaturgy with musical improvisation, dance, and archival research. Conceived by Ariel William Orah and Pedro Oliveira, the piece stems from their ongoing lecture-performance series Jendela Sonorama wherein musical and personal histories speak of larger political issues connecting our home countries – Brazil and Indonesia.

TAHANGUENTAR (an invented word fusing the Bahasa Indonesia and Portuguese words for endurance) focuses on the establishment of two musical rhythms as placeholders and ambassadors for ideas of unified nationalisms: Jaipong in 1960s Indonesia and Samba in 1940s Brazil. Both rhythms served as an amalgamation of the political turmoils of their respective times and, in many ways, as an attempt to undermine or erase ethnic, cultural, and religious diversities in their countries. (AWO+PO)

Ariel Orah is an Indonesian sound artist.

Pedro Oliveira is a Brazilian sound artist and researcher.

TAHANGUENTAR is supported in 2025 by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin