A Story in Quarantine
Kadek Puspasari (41) had almost given up once. An elementary school student scoffed at her messy French. Other students questioned why they needed to learn dancing, arguing that they do not live their lives to dance.
Kadek Puspasari
Kadek Puspasari (41) had almost given up once. An elementary school student scoffed at her messy French. Other students questioned why they needed to learn dancing, arguing that they do not live their lives to dance. As a dancer and choreographer of Javanese and Balinese tradition, Kadek took offense. “But I only cried,” she said.
Kadek remembers what happened in Paris when she was pregnant in 2010. Her husband, Christophe Moure, a French-Javanese man continued to encourage her. He assured her that protest could happen almost at any time, from both parents and children. “If they don’t want to learn to dance, they shouldn’t be forced. In the end, I went with those who wanted to learn,” said Kadek at the end of October 2020 from Paris.