Public Program: Talk

・Summary
For the past year, I have been circling around the question of support: what does support really mean?

Back in Indonesia, I run a platform with very limited financial resources to support artists. Because of this, we have been trying to find ways to support artists using resources beyond money, while continuing to question how such support is understood and practiced within our context.

In a time of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the question of support feels deeply urgent. While capitalist systems often turn human connection into something transactional, recent movement in Indonesia, such as #salingjaga (looking out for one another) and #wargajagawarga (citizens protecting citizens), have reminded us that human connection, when it takes the form of community, can become a shared safety system in moments of turbulence.

This experience led me to as, how might such practices translate into the field of dance? What could we offer one another within an artistic ecosystem if we begin from our shared position as human beings, alongside the various roles we inhabit? (Nia Agustina)

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■Profile
Nia Agustina
Agustin Pandhuniawati Heryani, known as Nia Agustina (b. 1989), is an Indonesia-based dance dramaturg, programer, and writer living in Yogyakarta. Since founding Paradance Platform in 2014, she has been actively engaged in nurturing young practitioners in Indonesia’s dance field through writing, programing, and dramaturgical practices.
She has served as Co-Curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival (2016–2024) and co-founded gelaran.id, a performance arts critique and review platform, with her husband, Ahmad Jalidu in 2017.
In 2020, Nia conducted research in Japan through the Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship, focusing on platforms for young artists in the dance scene. She was a participant in the Southeast Asia Critical Ecologies Residency for performance writers and critics organized by Centre42, Singapore (2021), and a member of the IETM Global Connector program (2021–2022). In 2024, she served as a jury member for the ZKB PRIZE at Zurich Theater Spektakel, Switzerland.
Her practice is deeply shaped and continuously grown by working closely as a dramaturg-friend with several choreographers. Nia holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics Education from Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (2015). Her sustained engagement with gender equality and inclusivity discourse since 2015—through various institutions—has significantly influenced her approach to work in performing arts.

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