Cosmos as the Garden
Introduction by Karolina Nieduza
Cosmos as the Garden is a collection of voice documentation recordings from my studies with the Javanese artist Suprapto Suryodarmo. Most of them come from workshops I attended during my stay in Java in 2012–2013; a few are recordings from 2011, made in Europe.
From over 2,000 hours of audio recordings, I have extracted 287 chapters, each lasting from 1 to 30 minutes.
Prapto and I met in 2011 in Bali, Indonesia and, over the next eight years, he became both my teacher and friend. He was one of the most exceptional movement artists I have ever encountered.
What distinguished him from other dancers and movers? His movement exceeded the boundaries of aesthetic form, choreography, or expression. While moving, he showed extremely high body awareness, which manifested itself in a relaxed state of consciousness—the ability to sense, receive, connect, and communicate with the environment. As a result, he acquired a unique movement style that was stunning to observe and impossible to imitate. Of course, this is only my subjective point of view and may not coincide with the views of other students.
For over 8 years of countless workshops, we moved or danced at all times of the day, night and year, in the blazing sun and heavy monsoon rain, in Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Chinese temples, as well as in stone circles, bazaars, markets, public parks, museums, construction sites, archaeological sites, and, of course, in the bosom of nature. The list is endless. We moved both in moments of joy and moments of exhaustion, disappointment, fear, and anger.
Why were we doing all this? To experience, to understand ourselves and the world through our bodies and our senses, and to transform ourselves. However, above all, we shared a common passion and appreciation for art and a strong desire to understand the source of life.
Almost every day, we ask ourselves several fundamental questions:
What is art? What is beauty? What is creation? What is movement and stopping? What is the source of life? What is a ritual? What are the performing arts? What is communication, and how do we communicate? What is relaxation, and why? What is receiving and expressing? What is safety, and what is fear? etc.
This collection of recordings answers these and many other questions related to life and the human condition on Earth.
For anyone unfamiliar with Prapto who will be listening to it for the first time, I would suggest listening with an open heart, even if you have difficulty understanding the topic; many things will become clearer over time.
Introduction by Karolina Nieduza
Cosmos as the Garden is a collection of voice documentation recordings from my studies with the Javanese artist Suprapto Suryodarmo. Most of them come from workshops I attended during my stay in Java in 2012–2013; a few are recordings from 2011, made in Europe.
From over 2,000 hours of audio recordings, I have extracted 287 chapters, each lasting from 1 to 30 minutes.
Prapto and I met in 2011 in Bali, Indonesia and, over the next eight years, he became both my teacher and friend. He was one of the most exceptional movement artists I have ever encountered.
What distinguished him from other dancers and movers? His movement exceeded the boundaries of aesthetic form, choreography, or expression. While moving, he showed extremely high body awareness, which manifested itself in a relaxed state of consciousness—the ability to sense, receive, connect, and communicate with the environment. As a result, he acquired a unique movement style that was stunning to observe and impossible to imitate. Of course, this is only my subjective point of view and may not coincide with the views of other students.
For over 8 years of countless workshops, we moved or danced at all times of the day, night and year, in the blazing sun and heavy monsoon rain, in Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Chinese temples, as well as in stone circles, bazaars, markets, public parks, museums, construction sites, archaeological sites, and, of course, in the bosom of nature. The list is endless. We moved both in moments of joy and moments of exhaustion, disappointment, fear, and anger.
Why were we doing all this? To experience, to understand ourselves and the world through our bodies and our senses, and to transform ourselves. However, above all, we shared a common passion and appreciation for art and a strong desire to understand the source of life.
Almost every day, we ask ourselves several fundamental questions:
What is art? What is beauty? What is creation? What is movement and stopping? What is the source of life? What is a ritual? What are the performing arts? What is communication, and how do we communicate? What is relaxation, and why? What is receiving and expressing? What is safety, and what is fear? etc.
This collection of recordings answers these and many other questions related to life and the human condition on Earth.
For anyone unfamiliar with Prapto who will be listening to it for the first time, I would suggest listening with an open heart, even if you have difficulty understanding the topic; many things will become clearer over time.
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Below are four of the recordings to give you an idea of what to expect. You can contact Karolina to discuss any of this.
Below are four of the recordings to give you an idea of what to expect. You can contact Karolina to discuss any of this.
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Cosmos as the Garden: samples and listing
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COSMOS AS THE GARDEN ~ 0-150
0. About Ritual Art and Performing Art. 26 m 50s 1. A-ha!! I understand. Life speaks. 5m 40s 2. Ability to use elements of nature to affect individuals, audiences or spaces. 25m 34s 3. About time, purification, and eclipses. 12m 8s 4. Adaptation and tuning. 4m 53s 5. Afraid of death, afraid of being non-present. 7m 55s 6. Afraid to stay at home. 6m 30s 7. All beings speak, but the question is: how much? 4m 45s 8. All is fine… 4m 54s 9. All/Everything is moving. Moving in moving (ocean, river). Moving, no moving (lake or a tree). No moving, in no moving (crystal). 11m 1s 10. An artist, a teacher, and a cultural manager. 3m 1s 11. Art never ends. 3m 32s 12. Art, consciousness, and beauty. 4m 28s 13. Attitudes towards receiving and expressing. 4m 29s 14. Attraversiamo! Jump over or the continuation of a place. 13m 55s 15. Awaken your potential. 5m 44s 16. Be in front; be involved. Hiding. 3m 54s 17. Because I touch, I can see. 4m 43s 18. Before you express. 5m 34s 19. Before you like or dislike, follow or unfollow. 4m 57s 20. Before you decide. 6m 58 21. Being a victim, a masochist. How to transform yourself. 12m 14s 22. Being among. 1m 48s 23. Being in art. 3m 40s 24. Beyond intuitive. 3m 43s 25. Blossoming flower. 1m 50s 26. Body of Joged Amerta. 2m 37m 27. Body of the space. Find "a bone" in the wind. 6m 37s 28. Brainstorming. 4m 53s 29. Breathe in the garden's atmosphere.7m 14s 30. Breathe in light and colour. Explanation step by step. 10m 5s 31. Choosing composition in living measurement. 2D and 3D form, structure, and texture. Being inside. 14m 27s 32. Choreography of Consciousness. 1m 37s 33. Circle/oval/square? Where do you want to be? 5:18 34. Clear dialogue in communication. Oneness or sharing? 3m 37s 35. Colour in the light. Form and frame. Being inside. Recognise the attitude of being ‘a part of’ and being ‘at the centre’. 15m 20s 36. Commitment to grow consciousness. 5m 42s 37. Communication among ethnic people. Garden approach. 5m 17 38. Communication with others. Find your place. 13m 5s 39. Communication with people who push their concept. 2m 8s 40. Concept of being a puppet. 3m 28s 41. Consciousness. 4m 47s 42. Copy, original. Back to your roots. 14m 7s 43. Cosmos as the garden. 15m 32s 44. Create a constellation of your home (body) for dialogue. 4m 39s 45. Create our being in time and space. 3m 15s 46. Creation as a path to Nirvana, Moksha, or heaven. 3m 7s 47. Crystallisation. From exploration to the essence. 5m 21s 48. Culture of ancestors, culture of home. 6m 40s 49. Culture of light. Eyes of light, eyes of nature, eyes of the sun. 5m 57s 50. Dance, dance, or relax and just be? 5m 51. Death and dying. 5m 34s 52. Differences between riding and driving. 4m 1s 53. Digesting. 5m 14s 54. Do all students imitate Prapto's way of moving? 5m 38s 55. Do I express myself, or do I just run away? 1m 44s 56. Do we move, or do we recognise our being? 2m 50s 57. Do Westerners have problems stopping? 2m 4s 58. Do you like your job? 4m 25s 59. Dogmatic, fanatic, blind follower, happy follower, or creator? 9m 59s 60. Dynamics and intensity. 4m 9s 61. Empty axis. Short answer. 1m 2s 62. Empty axis. Space inside me in connection with the environment 8:21 63. Energy finds form. Form finds energy. 5m 28s 64. Energy in sacred places. 4m 33s 65. Energy quality of nature's elements in movement. 3m 20s 66. Enjoy your movement first! 2m 38s 67. Entrance to the garden. Step-by-step explanation. 7m 26s 68. Exhibitionism and presence. 3m 48s 69. Expecting that something should happen during improvisation. 7:18 70. Exploration of place and space. 4m 31s 71. Expression in education or expression for the sake of expression. 3:50 72. Facts and hope. 6m 56s 73. Fear as a warning. 4m 13s 74. Fear of being in life. Home ‘in stay’, home ‘on the way’, or home ‘at the terminal’. 6m 47s 75. Fear of losing. The need to hold on to something or someone. 7m 59s 76. Fearless. 3m 54s 77. Feel safe now, so I can stop. 5m 22s 78. Feeling texture, feeling less flat. 4m 28s 79. Feet as living roots. 4m 11s 80. Find your inner guru; find the truth. 7m 34s 81. Find your point, spot, place, and space. Create your constellation. Be inside and connect with your surroundings. 5m 26s 82. Flower. What kind of impact does it have on you? 2m 11s 83. Formlessness gives birth to form. 7m 6s 84. Four conditions for communication. 3m 7s 85. Frame. 9m 13s 86. From ‘WE’ to ‘I’. 3m 58s 87. From an audience to the creation process. 7m 53s 88. From atmosphere and safety to surrender. Step-by-step. 6:58 89. From attachments to a new consciousness. 3m 38s 90. From movement to dancing, or from dancing to movement. 5m 54s 91. Garden as a temple. 9m 15s 92. Greek tragedy, catharsis, explosion, or layer by layer to wake up a new understanding. 17m 20s 93. Growing alternative ideas and ways. 5m 39s 94. Growing atmosphere of daily life. 5m 53s 95. Growing your talent layer by layer. 10m 22s 96. Having your ritual. 2m 16s 97. ‘Hello’ as a bridge to perceive. 1m 32s 98. How an individual grows in art and life. 7m 56s 99. How an individual plays improvisation in a team. 1m 46s 100. How can I tell if I'm talking to myself or is nature talking to me? 6:27 101. How do you choose while moving? How do you make choices? 3:53 102. How do you motivate or push yourself to self-practice? 3m 16s 103. How do you prepare yourself before entering an ancient site? 4m 8s 104. How do you work with people, Prapto? 8m 44s 105. How not to be flat? Get in and out of your shell. 3m 49s 106. How not to be wrong? 10m 35s 107. How to be conscious when opening the subconscious mind. 3m 108. How do you distinguish energy from movement? 3m 9s 109. How to judge. 3m 25s 110. How to prepare for old age. 3m 23s 111. How to wake up impulses. Opening and closing are creating ‘movement clothing’. 5m 24s 112. How you sit says a lot about you. 5m 26s 113. Human Nature Ritual Art and Performing Ritual Art. 5m 59s 114. I couldn't dance traditional or contemporary dance, so I created my own way of moving. 9m 52s 115. I did not want to end up like Vincent van Gogh. 14m 1s 116. I hope you won't get bored and will move throughout your life. 2:32 117. I in I, I in WE. Dependence, interdependence and independence. 11:27 118. I left you behind; I forgot about you. 2m 47s 119. I like to have my own position when I dialogue with Siddhartha. 10:58 120. Idea ‘Move into Life’, or ‘Walk into Life’. 5m 15 121. Impulses come from inside and outside. 9m 15s 122. In "WE", how not to become someone? 11m 54s 123. In the landscape of impulses. 8m 21s 124. Is dialogue sharing? Active and passive in sharing. 14m 47s 125. Lands of my understanding and not understanding. 13m 21s 126. Life without conflicts. 6m 31s 127. Light and shadow. 16m 35s 128. Limit the idea of producing something. 4m 9s 129. Losing myself in receiving. 2m 16s 130. Make your decision naturally, based on your organisms. 4m 10s 131. Mapping. View, line view, place view, overview. 8m 43s 132. Mapping. Where to go? 5m 56s 133. Maybe don't start with the concept first… 7m 34s 134. Meeting between moving and stopping. 5m 17s 135. Mind and creativity. 9m 40s 136. Mind does not like change; why? 4m 39s 137. Minimum and maximum in movement exploration. 2m 55s 138. The mystery of teaching. 2m 45s 139. Monotony in ritual: why? 4m 17s 140. Movement becomes form, or form becomes movement.1m 39s 141. Movement is breathing; breathing is movement. 5m 27s 142. Moving and struggling to stop. 13m 49m 143. Moving angle. 4m 2s 144. Moving in moving, moving in no moving, and no moving in no moving. 3m 38s 145. Moving & painting with your hands. Creating frames/windows. 4:10 146. My father did not take all his luck and left something for me. 3m 30s 147. Natural yoga movement. 2m 6s. 148. Nature of your mind, the mind of human nature. 7m 37s 149. I need to be seen, and I need someone to pay attention vs. being present. 14m 5s 150. New light colours. 2m 42s |
COSMOS AS THE GARDEN 151-287
151. Nirvana. No forest. Home as a way to transform. One day! 7m 48s 152. Object and subject. 12m 25s 153. Occupied by a temple or another person. 4m 22s 154. On time, under time. Speed. 5m 27s 155. Oneness with god or bowing to god. 3m 32s 156. Open day; why is it so important? 9m 25s 157. Open your heart, find your place, and grow a sense of safety rather than self-defence. 9m 3s 158. Opening and closing are creating ‘movement clothing’. 2m 36s 159. Our being is an artwork itself. 8m 34s 160. Practise together. Add textures to your movement. Realise that you are not flat. 27m 38s 161. Practise together. Are you awake while receiving? Prapto is singing. 13:08 162. Practise together. Bottom, heel, foot, shoulders, and neck. Stopping on the ground and in the air. 11m 43s 163. Practise together. Even when the wind comes, we do not shake. 22:8 164. Practise together. Oval, square, or circle. 24m 9s 165. Practise together. Passive and Active. 32m 24s 166. Practise together. Practice with a chair. Practical movement or moving movement. 24m 45s 167. Practise together. Where am I? Moving angle and ‘an angel’. 24m 13s 168. Passive-active. 3m 25s 169. Performance or daily informal life as path to understanding life. 12:31 170. Performing art and performing ritual art. 4m 53s 171. Physical and spiritual ways. 4m 15s 172. Play of point and space. Who pulled who? Examples of how I work with individuals. 10m 9s 173. Playing, not playing. 4m 39s 174. Please help me, god, life, my family, my ancestors and my lover! 3:45 175. Please look at me. 7m 41s 176. Point for stopping in a staying or stopping on the way. 3m 45s 177. Point in space or a point in a place. 7m 10s 178. Point, window, and view to transform our curiosity. 12m 38s 179. Practise "receiving in receiving" for colour, light, form, and frame. 9m 8s 180. Practice with a wall and a mirror. 6m 31 181. Prapto talks about his early-stage performances. 3m 3s 182. Prapto, I don't understand! Okay. Please move. Growing by practice. 1m 46s 183. Prapto sings and prays. 15m 2s 184. Prapto sings. 3m 10s 185. Praying, storytelling, and explanation are all in one. 4m 11s 186. Punishment and education. Is beauty a form of medication? 6m 34s 187. Puppet and a puppeteer in the garden. Everyone breathes the same air in the cosmos. 10m 16s 188. Pure intuition or just my understanding? How to distinguish. 6m 55s 189. Reality and Dream World. Human Nature Ritual Art vs. Performing Ritual Art. 4m 21s 190. Reality and Dream World. Is the reality of the earth stupid and dirty? The reality in a dream, using flying. 4m 28s 191. Reality and Dream World. The main goal is to create and design signatures in sign natures.17m 13s 192. Reality and Dream World. The idea of reading in movement is to understand and embody life. 33m 14s 193. Reality and Dream World. To embody a symbol (word) and a fact (reality)? 15m 53s 194. Reality and Dream World. What is what? What is the dream world, and the reality world? 12m 12s 195. Reality and Dream World. When I see someone flying, I like to bring them down to earth. 3m 26s 196. Receive fear. 3m 197. Receive first!!! Just for a moment, before you say yes or no. 6m 198. Receiving ‘for receiving’. 7m 54s 199. Receiving myself and the surroundings. 3m 2s 200. Receiving starts with feeling settled down, and expressing starts with action-reaction. 3m 36s 201. Receiving. Expression. Suppression. 10m 12s 202. Relationship between a mouth and a window. 6m 58s 203. Relax, take pleasure, and work. 2m 10 204. Resurrection as Sky Enlightenment.1m 42s 205. Resurrection and rebirth. 4m 26s 206. Ritual as a bridge from here and now to the unknown. 4m 40s 207. Safe and self-defence. Fauna and flora. Immunity. 14m 39s 208. Safe in communication. Feel the facts, but use your imagination. 7m 49s. 209. Safety. Feeling safe. What does it really mean? 10m 4s 210. Saying Hello! How to be in communication and how to find a language in communication. 9m 15s 211. Sculpting by copying something or sculpting according to your own originality or instinct. 6m 47s 212. Self-practice or just following someone else's practice? 7m 50s 213. Senses and feelings. 1m 34s 214. Sensible/sensitive in communication. “Hello” for safety. Speak. 5m 22s 215. Sensing and feelings. 11m 3s 216. Sensual and sexual. 3m 33s 217. Should I go, or should I stay? Language of flora and fauna. 14m 32s 218. Sign nature (longer version). 2m 23s 219. Sign nature (shorter version). 1m 48s 220. Skin as cloth. 2m 46 221. Slowly diving into the depths. 3m 45s 222. Some people cut me off for over 10 - 15 years. 3m 40s 223. Something comes out, something goes in. 4m 27s 224. Sometimes I receive, sometimes I express. 2m 43s 225. Soul having a body or a body having a soul? 4m 34s 226. Space and place. Ballet and traditional dance. 3m 32s 227. Stagnation because of high emotion.1m 11s 228. Starting with movement or stopping to grow your awareness? 3m 42s 229. Statue and a sculpture? Frozen and suspended? 3m 17s 230. Staying as a Tree of Life. 9m 10s 231. Stillness, movement, and Vipassana. 19m 20s 232. Stopping in ‘moving in moving’, stopping in ‘moving no moving’. 6m 4s 233. Stretching, releasing, and relaxing. 1m 54s 234. 'Superstars' in daily life. 54s 235. Teaching and sharing. 5m 30s 236. Temples and ancient places as a book help to understand life. 9m 2s 237. Tendencies to push oneself. 2m 35s 238. The beginnings of art begin at home. 3m 16s 239. The key is to relax in daily life. 8m 10 240. The source of my creation/creativity. 10m 42s 241. The teenager inside of me. 9m 41s 242. Theories and experiences in one. 3m 44s 243. Thesis and antithesis: a never-ending story. 3m 52s 244. Thinking of someone "as a form or image with a specific place and time". 5m 26s 245. Thinking and moving. What's on your mind? 8m 14s 246. Three approaches in movement. Moving in moving, moving no moving (like a lake), and no moving in no moving (like a crystal). 7m 45s 247. Three-dimensional being in nature. Do you start with movement, or posture? 5m 56s 248. Togetherness. Organism and organisation. 9m 43s 249. Total opening and total closing of the body. 9m 2s 250. Touch and the importance of relaxation. 11m 34s 251. Touching or looking without possessiveness. 9m 43s 252. Touching the earth, kneeling, sitting, or crawling. 7m 46s 253. Touching without physical touch. I can check someone's condition because of tuning. 10m 41s 254. Trance. Conscious in a trance. 4m 52s 255. Two variations of movement start with lying or walking. Legs and hands are not symmetric. 2m 27s 256. Types of stopping and why do we need them? 16m 30s 257. Various escape games and plays. About a consciousness other than order and control. 4m 23s 258. Various ideas exist in performance art. "Concrete" or "as if". 6m 51s 259. Village approach. 4m 11s 260. Voice of the ancestors. 7m 6s 261. Volume inside. 45 s 262. Volume and space inside, between the parts of the body, outside, and imagination. 9m 49s 263. Wake up the potential of re-member. 1m 9s 264. Ways and qualities of looking. 2m 2s 265. We are a museum of emotions; we are a museum of evolution. 1:38 266. What comes to mind as the first idea or experience? 4m 27s 267. What did you look for when you started this work, Prapto? 5m 54s 268. What is space? 5m 55s 269. What is the difference between ritual art and performance art? 6:19 270. What is the meaning of the performance for me? 9m 52s 271. What is the paradigm of life? Moving or not moving? 14m 35s 272. What part of your body is the source of your movement? 3m 08s 273. Whatever in communication. 1m 52s 274. Whatever your being receives. 1m 30s 275. When a point becomes a rainbow. 8m 58s 276. When could you really stop? 2m 29s 277. When I'm agitated. 5m 31s 278. When you watch people moving, what do you pay attention to? 9:56 279. Where do you come from, and where do you want to go? 6m 14s 280. Where is all this movement coming from? Bed or road. 6m 3s 281. Where is the door or a gate so I can enter? 9m 38s 282. Who is really clever? 2m 32s 283. Whole being as the mudra of speaking. 11m 19s 284. Why are we moving? Why are we suffering? The human story. 5:02 285. Why do we start with daily informal movement? 4m 52s 286. You are never alone. 2m 14s 287. Virginity, marriage, and fertility. 7m 42s
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