Art festival boosts image of
Surakarta
Kusumasari
Ayuningtyas, The Jakarta Post, Surakarta | Headlines | Sun, September 30 2012,
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Flying: British
dancer Robin Simpson from aerobatic troupe The Dream Engine performs
Heliosphere, a dance suspended from a helium balloon, on opening night of the
2012 Solo International Performing Arts (SIPA) festival in Mangkunegaran
Palace, Surakarta, on Friday. (JP/Kusumasari Ayuningtyas)
The fourth annual Solo International Performing Arts (SIPA) festival, held
in the Central Java city of Surakarta, seems to have proven successful both in
terms of increasing attendance and offering a greater variety of themes from
previous years.