181:. In 1982, she moved back to Batusangkar where she founded the Gumarang Sakti Dance Company. The dances performed by the troupe were reworked in the Minang martial style but greater complexity. In 1985, she gave up her job as teacher in order to devote all her time to dance. From 1986, she and her family settled in Jakarta. Her two daughters, Suwita Yanti and Yessay Apriati danced in her troupe while her son, Yandi Yasin (known as Boi G. Sakti), studied dance at the Jakarta Institute of Arts.
168:. While attending school there, she was introduced to Melayu dances by Sofyan Naan. Later, while at junior high school, she was recognized as a good dancer with an interest in traditional performing arts. She went on to attend the SPG Vocational High School for Teachers where Mrs Huriah Adam inspired her to devote her life to dancing. In 1960, she began a teaching course specializing in Indonesian at FKIP Teachers College, graduating in 1964. She moved with her parents to
137:. In 1984, she decided to become a professional choreographer, devoting her efforts to the Gumarang Sakti Dance Company which she had created in 1982. Gusmiati toured widely with the company in the late 1980s and the 1990s, visiting India, France, Germany, the United States, Canada and New Zealand. In her choreographic compositions from 1985 to 1991, she succeeded in combining
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157:, Gusmiati was the daughter of the schoolteachers Gasim Shahab, an Arab, and Asiah, a native Minang. In line with local Muslim traditions, she was brought up by her maternal uncle, Wahid Sampono Alam, who instructed her in the local martial arts or
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