Websites
Padepokan Lemah Putih, Prapto’s school lemahputih.com
Web Art Garden, an idea by Prapto webartgarden.com
* Note: For inquiries about Prapto’s current schedule of workshops in Indonesia and beyond please email or send WhatsApp messages to amerta@lemahputih.com or WhatsApp/0062 8139 300 4250.
Books, Articles, Video: a Bibliography (1991-Present)
Publications Relating to Amerta Movement
Recent Publications (2010-present)
2010 Suprapto Suryodharmo: Meditation in motion by Ganug Nugroho Adi in The Jakarta Post. 22 November.
2010 Religiosity in Art inspired by Samuan Tiga and Tejakula, Bali: Unity in Diversity. Ph.D. dissertation by Diane Butler, Universitas Udayana, Bali. Abstract pdf > here
2011 Composing while Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion by Melinda Buckwalter. University of Wisconsin Press. Features twenty-six leading contemporary artists of movement improvisation.
2011 Prapto Amerta: Biografia Visual Suprapto Suryodarmo by Ekasanti Anugraheni. Surakarta: self-published.
2011 Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve. Dorset, UK: Triarchy Press.
2011 Part 1, Body of Becoming and Progressing into no-Progress, by Bettina Mainz, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices 3 (1+2), 145-147.
2011 ‘Reading, Gardening and ‘Non-Self’: Joged Amerta and its emerging influence on ecological somatic practice’, by Sandra Reeve, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices
2012 An Improvised Conversation of Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen & Suprapto Suryodarmo at the 26th Annual BMCA Conference: Somatics: Exploring Our Roots, transcribed by Diane Butler and Kate Tarlow Morgan in Currents: a journal of the Body-Mind Centering® Association, winter edition. pdf > here
2012 Bodies, Rivers, Rocks and Trees: Meeting agentic materiality in contemporary outdoor dance practices, by Paula Kramer Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 17:4, 83-91
2013 Prapto video filmed in Java by Karolina Nieduża. Somerset, UK.
2014 The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making by Andrea Olsen with Caryn McHose. Wesleyan University Press. Chapter features practice with Prapto at Samuan Tiga, Bali.
2014 Embodied Lives: Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement co-edited by Katya Bloom, Margit Galanter, Sandra Reeve. Dorset, UK: Triarchy Press. Extracts pdf > here
2014 Suprapto Suryodarmo in Australia “Awakening in Australia” (1997-2013) by Margarita Playoust-Colley and Leonie Northfield. Sydney and Prana Ridge: self-published.
2014 An art project about impermanence of the body by Sister Cittapala. Germany/UK.
2015 Dancing Materiality: A Study of Agency and Confederations in Contemporary Outdoor Dance Practices. Ph.D. dissertation by Paula Kramer, Coventry University, UK. pdf >here
2014 ‘The Sacrum and the Sacred: mutual transformation of performer and site through ecological movement in sacred sites’ by Sandra Reeve, in Williamson, A & Batson, G (eds) Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives, Bristol: Intellect
2015 Chapter by Sandra Reeve in Moving Sites: Investigating Site Specific Dance, Oxford: Routledge
Online Video
Suprapto Suryodarmo: Amerta Movement DVD directed by Peter Hulton of summer 1997 workshops and seminars in Dartmoor, UK. University of Exeter, Centre for Arts Research and Development, Arts Archives. Segment ‘On Landscaping’. > here
1999 Prapto, Amerta Movement Film by Daniel Junod shot in Switzerland, Germany, Greece, and Indonesia. > here
2001 Suprapto Suryodarmo/Arte y Meditacion en Movimiento with Seri Tribe elder Francisco Chapo Barnett during workshop at Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico prior to Celebration Ethnic Art in Time at Xochicalco Temple organized by Geo Legoretta. Video by Carlos Ernesto Vizcarra. > here
2006 Suprapto Suryodarmo: Moving in Space DVD by Ana Godinho de Matos. London, UK. > here
