Teater Garasi is a creative community and a laboratory of theatre creations which believes that theatre work/performance is also a mode of articulation of social interactions/awareness and a practice of knowledge —a way to think/investigate, beside it's common/popular attribute/acknowledge: as a practice of aesthetic and amusement.

Hence, as a creative community Teater Garasi takes the shape of a field where people —from various disciplines of art and knowledge— meet and interact, to explore and celebrate human values and cultural diversities in our contemporary experiences/lives.

As a Laboratory of Theatre Creations, Teater Garasi is an institution in attempt to create fresh and genuine theatre idioms, based on research and study of existing theatre/performing art traditions, fuse/juxtapose it with contemporary models/sensibilities/imageries.

In order to manifest such vision, Teater Garasi divides its programs into three different fields: (i) Theater Creations, (ii) Theater Studies, and (iii) Knowledge Improvement.

Teater Garasi was founded on December 4, 1993 by Yudi Ahmad Tajudin, Y. Kusworo Bayu Aji and Puthut Yulianto. Since the beginning Teater Garasi has been trying to develop and establish theatre works /performances that also have a capability to build critical dialectics upon the broader context within and beyond theatre world with its public/audiences/spectators.

Staff

Artistic Director : Yudi Ahmad Tajudin
Executive Director : Kusworo Bayu Aji
Office Manager : Reni Karnila Sari
Program Manager : Galuh Asti Wulandari
Administration Staff : Ratri Kartika Sari
Financial Staff : Bernadetta Verry Handayani
Library Staff: Lusi Neti Cahyani
Documentation Staff : Jamaluddin Latif
Studio Staff : Adi Wisanggeni

Network and Partnerships

Teater Garasi has built creative interactions and partnerships with various institutions, nationally or internationally, such as: Centre Culturel Francaise ( CCF ) and The Japan Foundation ( for theater productions ), Asia Link ( Artist in Residency Program ), OSI-Open Society Institute ( Institutional building ), Hivos Foundation ( grants 2003-2007 ), Cultural and Development Programme of the Netherlands Embassy ( grants 2006-2009 ), theater/performing art institutions and festivals within Indonesia and abroad.
Teater Garasi continuously develops its network to keep open the institution for the possibility to build partnerships with any other institutions which have the same concern as Teater Garasi's vision and interests.

Contact Address

Teater Garasi: Laboratory of Theatre Creations
Jl. Bugisan Selatan 36 A, Tegal Kenongo, Yogyakarta 55181, Indonesia
Telp/Fax: 62-274-415844
E-mail: garasi@teatergarasi.org
Homepage: www.teatergarasi.org