Dancer-choreographer-artist Bagong Kussudiardja painted what he liked best: traditional dancers. He placed the silhouetted trio in a whirligig form to suggest the dance motion with the firm-footed one on the right half-naked. More of the movements can be guided by the hand movements and the awkward poses. It was a performance with muted light at night as the general colour veneer is dull. Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957, Bagong received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. He founded the Dance Training Centre on March 5, 1958, and the Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja on Oct 2, 1978. In 1985, the Indonesian Government awarded him the Art Prize, but he is better known for the award he received from the Catholic Pope Paul VI on his painting of a fragment of the Journey of Jesus Christ. In 1980, he received the Gold Medal from the Bangladesh Government. With a troupe of 15, he performed the Gema Nusantara dance in Malaysia in 1985. Apart from oil on canvas, he also did batik painting.