In March a throng of diplomats and friends of Indonesia packed the Theatre Hall of the International Performing Arts Centre on Kosmodamianskaya Nab.in Moscow for an exhilarating performance of a traditional music and dance spectacle, Krasny Dhuta, inspired by the Mahabharata epic.
The performance was a blend of the traditional and modern with guitars blending with the Gamelan orchestra and the Russian oriental martial arts group, the Pencak Silat Martial Arts club participating alongside the Indonesian dancers culled from the Embassy school and the Indonesian wives club in Moscow.
Photographs courtesy of the Ind onesian Embassy