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July 20, 2005
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Robert Wilson reverently stages an ancient Indonesian epic

ILA GALIGO

Text adaptation by Rhoda Grauer

Directed by Robert Wilson

Lincoln Center Festival

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FOREIGN GODS

Behind a scrim bearing two pages inscribed with an unfamiliar script, a group of musicians enter silently and sit down around their instruments. In front of it, at the other end of a vast stage, a brightly lit figure swathed in golden silk sits in front of a manuscript; he chants an invocation to the gods, asking their blessing on the performance and the gathering.

These opening moments of Robert Wilson's ILa Galigo at the Lincoln Center Festival encapsulate the spirit of this encounter between a vanishing Southeast Asian ...

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