KASEKTEN  

Kasekten is a dance, live music and performance art work in collaboration with Javanese metal vocalist Karina Utomo and Australian visual artist Michaela Gleave. A ceremonial morphoses inside an art  installation setting resembling a volcano crater, the work takes its structure from the Javanese understanding of the cyclical nature of time and seen and unseen worlds, to weave an arc in which powerful forces interplay, and embedded patriarchal histories are inverted to create a new future.

director & choreographer: Juliet Widyasari Burnett

composer: Karina Utomo

installation artist: Michaela Gleave

lighting designer: Jenny Hector

costume designer: Felicia Budi

costume supervisor: Aleisa Jelbart 

producers: Michaela Coventry, Ratri Anindyajati 

production manager: Alex Torney

performers: Juliet Widyasari Burnett, Karina Utomo

The development of Kasekten has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; and the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

We acknolwedge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which we worked, the Gamaragal People, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

MIASMA

A dance-theatre work. A fantastical dystopia. 

We have finally killed everything, except three humans, but after the trauma they have forgotten how things once were. They attempt to build new life, with occasional lapses of memory informing a darkly magical iteration of life on Earth in the future. 

director: Juliet Widyasari Burnett 

choreographer: Juliet Widyasari Burnett with the dancers

composer: Dylan Sheridan

dancers: Allie Graham, Zee Zunnur

costume: Aleisa Jelbart

set: Emma White

RORO XENO

A solo dance work with music by Kasimyn (Gabber Modus Operandi, Björk, Samsara film). Underpinned by the lore of Java in tension with Western ideologies, Burnett shapeshifts between Javanese folkloric deities and demons inherent in her ancestry  as an allegory for the eternal cycle of becoming. Working with the traditional medium of pointe shoes, merged with Javanese and contemporary dance and Silat; with Kasimyn’s music blending traditional with fantastical electronic sounds, all  creating a surreal world grounded in the visceral. 

Choreography & performance: Juliet Widyasari Burnett

Music: Kasimyn 

Producer: Michaela Coventry

CAIRAN (working title)

A dance and performance art work by Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati.

The trans female body and the cis female body are dynamic entities from a speculative future; untethered from patriarchal history, existing as sacred objects carrying new mythologies. These bodies are not fixed. They are portals, continuously upgraded, reprogrammed, reincarnated. 

In this world we are building, ancient Javanese spirituality converges with techno-fantasy aesthetics, cyberpunk and glitch distortion, and speculative artefacts. Here, desire is not only sensual but evolutionary: a driving force that transforms the body’s architecture. Bodies are organic hardware: pulsating circuits of water, blood, sweat, hormones, and ancestral data - a liquid machine secreting myths and birthing digital deities. New sacred rituals are built from uniquely female and queer codes, burying the patriarchal past. This is not a stage; it is a temple, a laboratory, and a server room: a space where mythologies are rewritten through the pulsation of flesh, machine, and collective longing.

Creation & performance: Juliet Widyasari Burnett, Ishvara Devati

Music: TBC

Costume: TBC

Producer: Michaela Coventry