
CONDORS
Ryohei Kondo, in the middle, the Choreographer
I went to Komunitas Salihara (www.salihara.org) this afternoon with my bestfriend, Wulan, to watch dance performance from a dance group from Japan, CONDORS. I have no idea about them. But since i got good review from my sist and finally read the review, i decided to watch them. It was great that Wulan is a spontaneous person, she was easily convinced to join me. She has no idea too.
Condors, the all male dance company has turned the Japanese contemporary dance scene on its head, is electric, sweaty, outrageous and hysterical (Says Salihara's Website). They had their prime performance in New York city in 2001, "Conquest of the Galaxy series 1: Jupiter" and had great success, followed with tours to heaps of countries including Indonesia . So this is their 2nd time coming. And they are performing the sequel, "Conquest of the Galaxy: Mars" .

After watching the performance, my opinion about them is, simply brilliant!
They were 12 people and they all amazing. They don't have perfect body as dancers should have (some does have though), so they all looked very humane. That's the message for us.
It says that Condors present a performance without a burden for the audience, as the members of this dance group believe life should be. That was true. We were filled with laughter watching them. They were shaking the audiences with laughter. What i thought was brilliant, beside the overall performance, is that they were speaking in Bahasa Indonesia in some of their conversation and uses some of our slang on perfect terms. Simple but brilliant.

Mars by Condors
Wulan and i were so satisfied. All the stress were gone for a while which was great ;)
Like always, when Wulan got excited, she wants to have photos with the artist(s). She a got a bit nervous. One of the guy whose working for Salihara saw our anxiety, uhm, mostly Wulan's. So he told us to join the after party, upstairs. We were pretty interested actually but decided not to join them because we know nobody there. Shame. But we got some photos with them, lucky.
Wulan has declared that she is a new fan of Condors. I reckon you guys just have to check their website www.condors.jp
P.S. : I googled the photos ;)