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Born in Parigi, central Sulawesi. Leu Wijee is an (self-taught) Indonesian artist, choreographer, and dancer based between Palu and Jakarta. His approach of using “between disaster and dance” as a way of thinking involves building up a performance with the concepts of destroy-renew and mix-remix. Mostly, he experiments and uses choreography to switch on “many things” (senses, spaces, sounds, objects, etc). “Although choreography is my prime medium, I see that anything which is moving resonates with my artistic practice.”.
In recent years, he has participated in various performances, such as in Asia Discovers Asia meeting for Contemporary Performance (Lab 2024) (Kitchen 2023) Bangkok and Taipei respectively; Indonesian Dance Festival (Evening Performance 2024, Kampana 2022) Jakarta; Taitung Fringe Festival (2023); Sync Next (2022) Seoul; Stre@m - An Asian Dance Digital Platform (2022-2023) Seoul and Singapore; Farm-Lab Exhibition (2021) Tokyo; Helatari Salihara (2021) Jakarta. He also has worked with and performed in the work of other artists, including Eun Me Ahn (2022) and Jecko Siompo (2014-2019).

Establishing an artistic unit "shitatame" in February 2011, she started working as a theater director based in Kyoto. In her practice, she has a strong interest in the act of acting and aims to construct a specific grammar of acting for each work by interpreting texts and motifs as if photographing them close up. She often collaborates with artists from such other fields as fine arts, photography, architecture, music, and sculpture. Through workshops and other activities, she is also focusing on nurturing the next generation.
She has participated in Kyoto Experiment with a recreation of "Couvade" (2021) in collaboration with yang02, an artist using media technology and with "Countercurrent Journeys" (2022), a theatrical work based on the research program, Kansai Studies, in collaboration with dot architects. In 2022, she co-directed "Goodbye, and good wishes for your success" with Kerala, India-based theater director Sankar Venkateswaran, supported by Japan Foundation.
Since 2018, she has served as the booking staff member for the multidisciplinary art space UrBANGUILD in Kyoto. In 2019, she initiated the cartographical research project, "Our Freehand Atlas." She has served as the chairperson of the Kyoto Performing Arts Organization, a non-profit organization, since 2020.