Agung Gunawan from Central Java possesses over forty years of solid foundation in court/traditional dance and inherits the artistic ambition and vision of several legendary dance teachers in Yogyakarta, transcending conventional Indonesian dance styles. He aspires to explore a fresher, more three-dimensional dance vocabulary that better expresses true human emotion drawing from contemporary and traditional folk bodily perceptions, philosophies, and wisdom, beyond the two-dimensional performances of Wayang mask dance or shadow puppetry.

Vinci has witnessed countless farewells of life and death since the COVID-19 pandemic. The intense embrace of her mother's body on the hospital bed, its temperature at zero, was more impactful to her than any Butoh performance. Life is both real and simultaneously ephemeral and ephemeral; limbs fade and age "Face Cycle," ultimately turning to ashes in the smoke. Vincis Hong Kong spirit is still alive in the end stage of universe today.，She though it is time to re-examine her diverse "bodysuit varietion from her theater, dance and performance art background that it cannot avoid,.She is trying to analyze how " bodily autonomy found a Hong Kong-made Butoh creation under the spectrum of Hijikata Butoh that it has followed for nearly 20 years.


Life unfolds through the years, and the beauty of aging leaves its mark on the face, each wrinkle a testament to waiting, a narrative, and a story.


Using Javanese masks carved from river holy wood imbued with the energy of nature as the medium for a dialogue/monologue between two bodies, the dance transcends twisting, flowing, leaping, and the shared thought of mutual breathing and introspection.

Traversing the finite yet infinite, yet still rolling, rebellious forms/bodies, or fingertips and mutra....for how will these two Eastern Spirit Dance Souls, who accidentally landed in Banka during their drifting performance, ultimately present a duet <Face Cycle> , a dance that may lead to the same destination, a dance of disintegration and reunion.Or perhaps a reflection on the Asian dance body as one enters the second half of life?!