Hello Friends of Travelfeed and Pinmapple, may God bless us all.
This time I want to share my adventure story watching extreme dance arts.
The evening when I went out on the weekend to enjoy snacks and culinary at the Sanggamara Field, Takengon City (Gayo Tribes), I got the opportunity to watch a show on this field.
Dozens of people have crowded with the location of the show, they have been crammed to be able to stand in the front row. The committee has fenced off the restrictions of the place to watch with a rope and location of a rectangular performance.
The exact performance is in the center of the field and the audience surrounds to watch their attractions. Apparently, after I wondered, this was a lumping horse show.
This has been named as a dance and art that has been inherited by ancestors from a long time ago for generations. According to what I know, this lumping horse dance comes from the island of Java, it has existed since the past, including the mixing of the Hindu-Buddhist kingdom.
That tradition and cultural heritage such as dance has become an inseparable part of people's lives. These values seem to be mandatory things that are maintained for generations, making it more valuable as an identity of ethnic or nation.
This lumping horse dance is a mysterious art that looks mysterious. How not, when I witnessed a number of people who were dancing in a state of unconsciousness, in this position the dancers had been entered by the spirits of the ancestors, so that this appeared as a dance with the condition of the dancers in the state of being infected (under the conscious)
The dancers hold a dance using property in the form of a tool that resembles a horse. They seemed to be riding a horse by holding a whip, this whip occasionally threw or hit to the ground, even occasionally they also hit the whip on their bodies.
When the whip fell on their bodies, they seemed to have been immune and did not feel the pain of the whip blow. This increasingly makes me curious about the mysterious dance.
Even when I looked closer, the sound of the whip feels so loud and fast falling on their feet and hands. They can also break and even chew glass with their mouths.
On the other hand, someone has broken coconut shell with their heads and chews old coconut meat with their mouths. No half-hearted, they did this to become more extreme and look scary when I watched this show.
They dance with their eyeball positions that look sharply into the sky and forward. Under the conscious they continue to dance by riding dance property in the form of horses.
This horse property looks made of woven bamboo and they have coloring and making patterns on this property so that it looks clear like a horse. This dance is accompanied by a traditional musical instrument game made of wood and some made of brass iron.
They beat the instrument simultaneously so that it becomes a typical rhythm of rhythm to listen to. Some musical instruments that I know that they play are like drums, gongs, slompret, and sarong.
There are also a number of other traditional musical instruments that they use, but unfortunately I do not know the name and type of musical instrument. The music players are under a tent and it is right in front of the dancers.
They partially occur from adults and the majority are teenagers and youth. They seemed to really enjoy this dance game, but for me it appeared as an extreme culture.
Indeed, each region has their respective arts and dances and as a cultural heritage they have maintained that value and continue to introduce to the general public. This becomes an identity and things that should be valued to be a part of human life in the world.
Aside from being entertainment, this dance can be a medium for the spread of art and culture for a tribe and nation. This was my first experience in watching the Lumping Horse dance.
Thus my post, I hope you enjoy it, thank you very much.
