CYVASA 2.0 is a collaborative performance work created and performed by Indonesian and diaspora dance artists Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati, with a music score by Indonesian feminist noise duo Metatesis and costume by Indonesian designer and drag artist Byakta BaBaM.

The trans and cis female bodies are dynamic, sacred entities from a speculative future; untethered from patriarchal history and vessels of new mythologies. The organic hardware of these bodies is a portal: continuously upgraded, reprogrammed and reincarnated.

In the world of CYVASA 2.0, ancient Javanese spirituality merges with techno-fantasy aesthetics and glitch distortion. Here, desire is not only sensual but evolutionary; a driving force that transforms the body’s architecture. The body is a liquid machine containing pulsating circuits of water, blood, sweat, hormones and ancestral data; secreting myths and birthing digital deities. New sacred rituals are built from uniquely female and queer codes, burying the past. This is not a stage, but a temple, laboratory and server room, where mythologies are rewritten through the flux of flesh, machine and collective longing.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Juliet Widyasari Burnett & Ishvara Devati
MUSIC Metatesis (Dyah Isaka + Nadya Hatta)
COSTUME Byakta BaBaM
SET Juliet Widyasari Burnett
PRODUCER Michaela Coventry

PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursday 13th November, 7.30pm
Friday 14th November, 7.30pm
Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm

LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne

ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible

TICKETS
$15 General Admission
$25 Pay a little more

This project has been supported by Performance Space and Critical Path's Experimental Choreographic Residency; the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; and Temperance Hall.

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Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati are Temperance Hall TEMPER Artists for 2025. Read the artist's bios via the Temperance Hall website here.

TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

Bringing experimental, radical art/work/ideas/experiences/research/perspectives/practices/dances from farther afield to share with local audiences at Temperance Hall.

#1 Martin Hansen (Melbourne/Berlin): August

#2 Liz Rosenfeld (Berlin/London): October

#3 Juliet Widyasari Burnett (Gold Coast) and Ishvara Devati (Jakarta): November

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

Temperance Hall's activities in 2025 are supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.