| Fellowship Participant – Ari Rudenko |
Fellowship Participants Ari RudenkoExecutive & Artistic Director Ari Dharminalan Rudenko is an interdisciplinary choreographer and artistic director based in Central Java, Indonesia, and the founder of Prehistoric Body Theater, a company that fuses dance-theater with paleontology in collaboration with a core team of indigenous Indonesian dancers and an international panel of mentor scientists. Originally from the US San Juan Islands, Ari has been an active cultural researcher and generative artist in Indonesia since 2012. Ari’s academic background includes an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and an ongoing Ph.D. in Dance Creation Studies at the Art Institute of Indonesia Surakarta. Ari's work with Prehistoric Body Theater has shown live in festivals and events in the US and across Indonesia, won awards such as the Bergstrom Award for Art-Science Interface and the Paleontological Society's 2023 Education and Outreach Grant, been published in Oxford Press, and presented at platforms including TEDxUbud, multiple international sciences conferences, and at the ISPA 2023 Manchester Congress. >>View Ari's member profile (member sign-in required) Thank you to ISPA’s Global Fellowship + Diversity Fund Donors for their generous support of the Global Fellowship Program. Learn how you can support ISPA Fellows. |
