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Taufik Darwis is a  writer,researcher, dramaturg, curator and theater director, lives in Bandung, Indonesia. He is co-founder Bandung Performing Arts Forum - BPAF. Since March 2016 until 2019, he was once a co-curator of Indonesian Dance Festival for Kampana’s Program. From 2016, he has also resided and helped exhibit works by one of the leading painters in Indonesia, Hanafi and programs created by Studio Hanafi for two years. In 2018-2019, Taufik was  invited as a guest curator Cabaret Chairil program (A transit and development platform for experimental works) at Garasi Performance Institute. In 2016, Taufik attended Art Summit Indonesia for Dramaturgy and New Dramaturgy Workshop by Ugoran Prasad (Associate Artistic at Teater Garasi, a doctoral candidate from the Theater and Performance program at The Graduate Center, City University of New York) and Peter Eckersall (Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne). He was also involved in Dramaturgy Assembly organised by Teater Garasi in Yogyakarta. In 2018, Taufik was selected as a partisipant The Curators Academy, TheatreWorks Singapore; TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, and Symposium Asian Dramaturg’s Network. And September2018, through US / NOT-US Project with BPAF, he was involved in Asian Dramaturgs Network Laboratory 2018 in Yogyakarta. In in the same year, he was selected and involved in the Next Generation Producing Performing Arts 2018, Asia Center, Japan Foundation. In 2019, he was involved as one of the interviewees in Asia Hundreds project, Japan Foundation Asia Center. And was selected to conduct a research residency as an Art Managers for over one month in Tokyo and Kyoto on Visiting Fellows 2019 Program, The Saison Foundation.