Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Philosophy of Solo dance, duet and sacred dance


Solo dance means itself in a symbolic, ideal and magic of dancing, feeling of dancer and appreciation of artistic audiences.  In symbolic means, solo is roundness (kebulatan), veracity (kesungguhan), capacity and perfection.  Ideal because it’s one of target, theme, dancer.  The dancer responsible to dance and to explain content of the dancing as good as possible and audiences can feel what they saw.  Magic because values of dancing and soul (jiwa) of dancer to be one.  So there are Patut (suitable) (pada tempatnya), Pantes (fit), Antep (heaviness), and Nges (enormous).

The Duet Dance (Java called  Beksan of Pethilan) is usually the importance thing of the story. The theme of duet usually fighting between good and bad characters.  In the end good character will be a winner.

The Sacred Dance is a dance who performed in the special time.  The dancers have to fast before to dance and also clean of themselves.  This activity is a rule to do Sacred Dance.  The female dance use magic make up like bride.  The dancing are Bedhaya and Srimpi and the male dance is Lawung.

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