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Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2005

Jan Mrázek
Jan Mrázek
Affiliation:
The Southeast Asian Studies Programme of the National University of Singapore. His e-mail contact is seajm@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 249 - 279
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© 2005 The National University of Singapore

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