Ditta Miranda Jasjfi (born in Jakarta, Indonesia) began classical ballet in Paris at the age of five. Moving back to Indonesia she continued training in ballet with Farida Oetoyo whilst studying Indonesian traditional dances from Bali, West, Mid and East-Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Jaipong from different teachers. In 1989 Ditta studied modern dance in Folkwang Hochschule, in Essen, Germany, after which she began dancing for the Folkwang TanzStudio in 1993. The following year Ditta worked in Bremer Theater with artistic director Susanne Linke and Urs Dietrich and since 2000 has been dancing with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.