Sardono gets international award

Sardono gets international award

JAKARTA: Indonesian dancer-choreographer Sardono W. Kusumo
has been awarded the Distinguished Artist Award by the
International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).

The Sono Seni dance studio in Surakarta, Central Java, where
the artist is based, said the award would be presented during a
ceremony on June 20, as part of the society's 17th International
Congress at the Esplanade in Singapore. The congress is taking
place between June 18 and June 21.

The ISPA Distinguished Artist Award, first awarded in 1975, is
presented to performing artists who have made an outstanding
contribution of talent, artistry, dedication and service to the
world of performing arts.

Past recipients include pianist Arthur Rubenstein (1976), jazz
clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman (1982), opera, theater,
and film director Peter Sellars (1990), mime Marcel Marceau
(1992), Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim (1994) and soprano
Dame Joan Sutherland (1994). -- JP